Summary)
What is culture? Culture is a non-biological or social aspect
of human life, and basically everything that people acquire is part of culture.
In other words, it is the simplest way of understanding the way of life in
society. This culture involves many aspects, including, but not limited to,
norms, values, beliefs, or symbols of expression. In conclusion, culture can
encompass anything that can give or give meaning to groups of people.
Subcultures share culture and are actively engaged by a
handful of people from a broader culture. Subculture collects the people in the
center who are neglected by the social standard and form the identity.
Subcultures can be unique because of their age, ethnicity, class, location or
gender. Countercultures are the culture of a group that does not acknowledge
the order of the existing society among the subcultures, but positively opposes
and positively challenges the dominant culture of society.
Ethnocentrism is a tendency to look at the world mainly from
the perspective of its culture. In particular, one can take an exclusive,
negative, and hostile attitude toward other people. Cultural relativism is the
belief that the concept and value of culture can not be fully translated or
fully understood in other languages. It is the view that recognizing the
diversity of the world culture and each culture should be understood in the
unique environment of the culture and the historical and social situation. In
other words, judging culture based on the environment and context of society,
there are reasons for existence of any cultural factors.
Culture is easy to change and resistant to it. As we widen
our perspectives and see the cultural process over a long period of time, we
can see that culture is gradually changing or changing. These cultural changes
can have many causes, including contact with the environment, inventions and
other cultures.
How do sociologists study culture? One approach to cultural
studies is the label 'Cultural Sociology' which combines cultural studies and
cultural understanding of phenomena. Cultural sociologists seek out how people
have meaning in life from the diverse cultural elements surrounding them.
New/Interesting
things I learned)
I was interested that culture performs certain functions in
social life. According to Griswold, "sociological analysis of culture
begins with the premise that culture provides orientation, protects against
chaos, and leads behavior to certain actions and away from others.". And
culture can have order keeping as a result of shared understanding and meaning.
While it is possible to maintain order in this way, culture can play a role in
creating and maintaining social inequality. Culture was able to maintain order,
but found that it had opposite characteristics that could lead to inequality. I
also learned that the usual actions I had taken for granted, not being able to
think of life as living, were culture.
Discussion Point)
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Cultural relativism is a view that recognizes the
diversity of world cultures and that each culture should be understood in its
unique environment and historical and social contexts. However, if relativism
goes beyond the province, it becomes extreme relativism, and this becomes an indifferent
and indifferent rather than a respect and acknowledgment of other cultures.
Extreme cultural relativism recognizes cultures, such as cultures and wafers,
which are a form of harm to human universal values, as culture. Of course, I
think that it should not be recognized as a culture to undermine the universal
values of humanity such as human dignity. However, should we recognize
culture as a dish made with living monkeys in China? I would like to discuss
how far we have to recognize culture.
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In my opinion, culture is so relative that even some culture that we feel disgusting can be
ReplyDeleteother's culture. For example, korea's dog-eating culture is disgusting to some people but it is korea's culture. But I think, we have values that we must keep. If the culture that harms our values that we must keep, we can deny that culture.
DeleteI agree with you that you can deny that culture if it is a culture that harms our values. We should only recognize culture as an act that preserves human universal values such as human dignity. Thank you for your good feedback.