Society and Culture

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Society and Culture
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What is a society?

• a shared, learned, symbolic system of values,
  beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences
  perception and behavior -- an abstract "mental
  blueprint" or "mental code."
• A shared perception of reality
• Commonly known as
• Commonly known as
• Common sense
• They say
• Everybody knows

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Why bother with societies and cultures?

• Humans are weak
• Societies are mutual support pacts

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Lets build a society

• An individual
• Two people
• More than two
• Or twenty
• Or twenty million
• 1st purpose of a society reduce friction between
  people in the society
• 2nd purpose separate one society from others

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Early Human Culture

• Small groups of around 25
• Gatherer/hunters
• Nomadic
• Limited possessions
• more permanent settlements
• Became tribes
• xenophobia

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End of the Ice Age

• About 12,000 BCE
• The high grasslands began to dry out
• Tribes migrated down into the river valleys
  looking for food
• Tigris/Euphrates
• Indus
• Yellow
• Nile

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The first great change
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Domestication of animals
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Irrigation
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Canals
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Fields
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Granary
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Pharaoh
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Pyramid of Zoser
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The Torah
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Class and Clothing
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Class and Clothing
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Chinese Fingernail Shields
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Jocks vs. Nerds
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Weighing the Heart
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Ramses II
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Queen Hatshepsut
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Nazis
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Soviets
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Sparta vs. Athens
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Rome vs. everybody
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War of the Roses
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English Civil War
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American Revolution
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French Revolution
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American Civil War
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Inquisition
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Womens Suffrage
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Civil Rights
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Timothy McVeigh / John Allen Muhammad / Aileen
Wuornos
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James von Brunn Scott Roeder Jim David Adkisson
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Anders Behring Breivik
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