1. Summary
At the beginning of the article, there is an example of cultural diversity.
And the article explains 'High' culture that does not recognize cultural diversity.
As the concept of culture changes, this high cultural concept is rejected by most sociologists now.
And a little bit about the abstraction level of culture &The Artificiality of Cultural Categorization .
The cultural concept can have multiple levels of meaning, and that each of these levels may continuously act upon one another in complex ways.
However, whether abstract or concrete, "culture and society" are all artificial categories of social life elements.
Yet the distinction between the two, while artificial, is useful for a number of reasons.( Cultural conflict resolution,Explain the historical development of social structure & the persistence or destruction of social inequality )
And the article explains ethnocentrism and cultural relativism through scholarly quotes and Spanish translation examples.
then introduces Richter 's cultural theory( Richter also known as 'The McDonaldization of Society'!!we learned in another class.(o^▽^o) )
I also read about cultural change and cultural research methods.
Macro-level culture affects individuals, and individuals influence culture again. It explains how culture is changed or maintained.
2. new, interesting, or unusual items learned
I am interested in four socially interdependent elements that Ritcher introduces.
There are the following elements :
a macro-objective component (e.g., society, law, bureaucracy), a micro-objective component (e.g., patterns of behavior and human interaction), a macro-subjective component (e.g., culture, norms, and values), and a micro-subjective component (e.g., perceptions, beliefs).
It presents two axes for understanding culture.
One is from objective (society) to subjective (cultural, cultural interpretation).
The other is from macro (normative) to micro (personal belief).
3. Discussion Questions
- Are there any humans who don't have culture?
no.never.
Some may say that a girl who is raised by a wolf has no culture.
I think culture is not transferred only by the words and actions of the caregiver.
There is a piece of culture in the evolutionary gene in the girl 's body.
Maybe it is the extension of the meaning of culture too.
However, even a human being who has been isolated from society and living in nature, there will be a very small fragment of culture in it.
She simply did not have the 'culture' as an artificial social classification adopted by a large number of people.
At the beginning of the article, there is an example of cultural diversity.
And the article explains 'High' culture that does not recognize cultural diversity.
As the concept of culture changes, this high cultural concept is rejected by most sociologists now.
And a little bit about the abstraction level of culture &The Artificiality of Cultural Categorization .
The cultural concept can have multiple levels of meaning, and that each of these levels may continuously act upon one another in complex ways.
However, whether abstract or concrete, "culture and society" are all artificial categories of social life elements.
Yet the distinction between the two, while artificial, is useful for a number of reasons.( Cultural conflict resolution,Explain the historical development of social structure & the persistence or destruction of social inequality )
And the article explains ethnocentrism and cultural relativism through scholarly quotes and Spanish translation examples.
then introduces Richter 's cultural theory( Richter also known as 'The McDonaldization of Society'!!we learned in another class.(o^▽^o) )
I also read about cultural change and cultural research methods.
Macro-level culture affects individuals, and individuals influence culture again. It explains how culture is changed or maintained.
2. new, interesting, or unusual items learned
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| https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Culture |
I am interested in four socially interdependent elements that Ritcher introduces.
There are the following elements :
a macro-objective component (e.g., society, law, bureaucracy), a micro-objective component (e.g., patterns of behavior and human interaction), a macro-subjective component (e.g., culture, norms, and values), and a micro-subjective component (e.g., perceptions, beliefs).
It presents two axes for understanding culture.
One is from objective (society) to subjective (cultural, cultural interpretation).
The other is from macro (normative) to micro (personal belief).
3. Discussion Questions
- Are there any humans who don't have culture?
no.never.
Some may say that a girl who is raised by a wolf has no culture.
I think culture is not transferred only by the words and actions of the caregiver.
There is a piece of culture in the evolutionary gene in the girl 's body.
Maybe it is the extension of the meaning of culture too.
However, even a human being who has been isolated from society and living in nature, there will be a very small fragment of culture in it.
She simply did not have the 'culture' as an artificial social classification adopted by a large number of people.
'There is a piece of culture in the evolutionary gene', I am very interested in this sentence. Because, after reading this sentence, people have thought that not only accepting culture from the outside, that the cell itself constitutes a culture as a 'new culture'.
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