Professional Documents
Culture Documents
-study how people who share a common cultural -Linguistic anthropology closely studies those
system organize and shape the physical and social societies where language defines a culture or
world around them, and are in turn shaped by those society.
ideas, behaviors, and physical environments.
THE SELF EMBEDDED IN THE CULTURE
CULTURE
-is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors,
beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept,
generally without thinking about them, and that are
passed along by communication and imitation from
one generation to the next.
CULTURAL INFLUENCE S THAT SHAPES
THE SELF
ENCULTURATION
-is the process by which a person adopts the
behavior patterns of the culture he lives in.
ACCULTURATION
-The process by which an individual or group
adopts the practices and values of one culture while
still retaining their own culture of origin.
CULTURE AS HINDRANCE OF OUR
IDENTITY
“culture influences our beliefs about what is true
and false, our attitudes including our likes and
dislikes, our values regarding what is right and
wrong, and our behaviors.”