Culture

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Culture

• A human societys total way of life
• It is learned and shared
• Includes values, customs, material objects and
  symbols.
• Material Culture
• Non-material Culture

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Ways to Study Culture

• Cultural Integration
• Popular Culture
• Cultural Lag
• Diffusion
• Cultural Universals
• Subcultures
• Countercultures
• Multiculturalism

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Pitfalls

• Cultural Relativism
• View that all cultures have intrinsic worth and
  that each culture must be evaluated and
  understood according to its own standards
• Ethnocentrism
• Evaluating another culture based on the
  assumption that yours is superior

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Mapping Cultural Identities

• Culture
• Cultural Geography
• Cultural Landscape
• Historical Geography
• Cultural Traits
• Cultural Complex
• Cultural Region

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Pieces of Cultural Identities

• Values
• Beliefs
• Norms
• Sanctions
• Mores
• Symbols
• Language

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Communication in Culture

• Verbal
• Language
• Music and Literature
• Role of Biology
• Non-verbal
• Body Language
• Symbolic
• Gestures

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Cultural Nationalism

• Cultural nationalism is a movement to protect
  regional and national cultures from the
  homogenizing impact of globalization, especially
  from the penetrating influence of U.S. culture.
• Islam and Islamism
• Islam submit to the will of Allah (God)
• Muslim a member of the community of believers
  whose duty is obedience and submission to Allah
• Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca
• Jihad Sacred struggle sometimes defined as
  holy war

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Twin Towers, Before and After
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Culture and Identity

• Sexual Geographies
• Sexuality is a set of practices and identities
  that a given culture considers related to each
  other and to those things it considers sexual
  acts and desires.
• Ethnicity and the Use of Space
• Ethnicity is a socially created system of rules
  about who belongs to a particular group based
  upon actual or perceived commonalities.
• Race and Place
• Race does not exist in the human species,
  biologically speaking.
• Gender, Class, and Vulnerability
• Gender is a category reflecting the social
  differences between men and women.