What is Culture?

Key Culture Question #1

Are you…………

–Team Peeta???? Team Peeta????

oror

–Team Gale???? Team Gale????

Key Culture Question #2

• Would you rather be in…Would you rather be in…

–District 5???? District 5????

–The Capitol????The Capitol????

–District 13???? District 13????

CULTURE IS….• A system of beliefs, values and A system of beliefs, values and

assumptions a group of people share about assumptions a group of people share about life…. life….

• Which shapes their behaviors and can be Which shapes their behaviors and can be compared and contrast through universal compared and contrast through universal activities…. activities….

• and creates a common worldview which is and creates a common worldview which is transmitted from generation to generation, transmitted from generation to generation, rarely with explicit instructions. rarely with explicit instructions.

Comparing Cultures Today

PBS Wide Angle Series Back to School : Neeraj's World• 10:15 to 18:57

• T CHART SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Two ways tounderstand Culture

1)cultural universals

2)cultural worldview

What are cultural universals?What are cultural universals?• universal defined…

when something “is present or occurring everywhere… under all conditions.”

• So cultural universals are….

aspects of all cultures which are present regardless of a culture’s location or time

• KEY: CULTURAL UNIVERSALS HELP US UNDERSTAND A CULTURE AND COMPARED TO OUR OWN.

1. Family and Daily Life

2. Religion and Ethical Systems

3. Education

4. Power, Authority and Government

5. Arts, Literature and Architecture

6. Science, Technology & Innovation

7. Economics & Trade

For Tomorrow…For Tomorrow…

How would your How would your letter be different if letter be different if you wrote it to you wrote it to Xanthe or Marpessa?Xanthe or Marpessa?

Cultural Worldviews

How one’s culture shape a person’s How one’s culture shape a person’s behaviors, values and beliefs behaviors, values and beliefs

RIDDLE:

How is culture like and an iceberg?

What is Worldview?

• Webster’s Definition

“A comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint.

• Clementi’s Translation

How one’s cultural experience and education shapes her behaviors, beliefs, values and perception of her world

CULTURE IS….• A system of beliefs, values and A system of beliefs, values and

assumptions a group of people share about assumptions a group of people share about life…. life….

• Which shapes their behaviors and can be Which shapes their behaviors and can be compared and contrast through universal compared and contrast through universal activities…. activities….

• And creates a worldview which is And creates a worldview which is transmitted from generation to generation, transmitted from generation to generation, rarely with explicit instructions. rarely with explicit instructions.