Chapter 4 - Researching Media Audiences
... organisational theorists have variously attempted to define culture and the lesser term subculture. While we all seem to have some idea of what is meant by culture, Defining it precisely is difficult. Informally, the word culture refers to a way of thinking and acting that is somewhat related to peo ...
... organisational theorists have variously attempted to define culture and the lesser term subculture. While we all seem to have some idea of what is meant by culture, Defining it precisely is difficult. Informally, the word culture refers to a way of thinking and acting that is somewhat related to peo ...
Culture Concepts in Political Struggle Introduction
... alongside notions of supra or sub-national ethnic or religious cultures that are gaining political traction. One cannot assume that the three main Euro-American constructions of the culture concept identified by Raymond Williams—a process of development, a way of life of a particular group, and a bo ...
... alongside notions of supra or sub-national ethnic or religious cultures that are gaining political traction. One cannot assume that the three main Euro-American constructions of the culture concept identified by Raymond Williams—a process of development, a way of life of a particular group, and a bo ...
Introducing Linguistic Anthropology
... • Applied Anthropology – A fifth field or a second dimension? ...
... • Applied Anthropology – A fifth field or a second dimension? ...
Social Constructions
... • Social capital: resources based on group membership, relationships, networks of influence and support. • Cultural capital: forms of knowledge; skill; education; any advantages a person has which give them a higher status in society, including high expectations. – E.g. Parents provide children with ...
... • Social capital: resources based on group membership, relationships, networks of influence and support. • Cultural capital: forms of knowledge; skill; education; any advantages a person has which give them a higher status in society, including high expectations. – E.g. Parents provide children with ...
Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction - Cultural-Studies
... • High culture - To have culture is to "know the best that has been said and thought in the world," he captured the conceptual essence of high culture. - As the term "culture" has come to have a broader meaning, more inclusive of everything within a given culture rather than simply the most elite cu ...
... • High culture - To have culture is to "know the best that has been said and thought in the world," he captured the conceptual essence of high culture. - As the term "culture" has come to have a broader meaning, more inclusive of everything within a given culture rather than simply the most elite cu ...
let`s avoid ethnocentrism - National Commission On Culture
... own limited experience. Our perceptions of tribes, our time frames, our values on industriousness, our social roles, our beliefs about life and the universe, and all our other ways help us organize life experience and provide important meanings and functions as we move through daily and life span ...
... own limited experience. Our perceptions of tribes, our time frames, our values on industriousness, our social roles, our beliefs about life and the universe, and all our other ways help us organize life experience and provide important meanings and functions as we move through daily and life span ...
Lecture 5
... One of the more important points to understand about culture is that it is an artificial categorization of elements of social life. As Griswold (2004) puts it, „There is no such thing as culture or society out there in the real world. There are only people who work, joke, raise children, love, think ...
... One of the more important points to understand about culture is that it is an artificial categorization of elements of social life. As Griswold (2004) puts it, „There is no such thing as culture or society out there in the real world. There are only people who work, joke, raise children, love, think ...
The Psychology of Cultural Experience - Assets
... mind to define learned schemas as dense networks of strong associations built up from experience. Whatever co-occurs in experience, including thoughts, emotions, motivations, and the nonverbalized or preverbal, will become incorporated in a schema. Once a strong network of associations has been crea ...
... mind to define learned schemas as dense networks of strong associations built up from experience. Whatever co-occurs in experience, including thoughts, emotions, motivations, and the nonverbalized or preverbal, will become incorporated in a schema. Once a strong network of associations has been crea ...
Final Examination
... a) Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success. b) Culture is transmitted through biology. c) Culture is passed on from generation to generation. d) Culture forces consistently shape and mold human biology and behavior. Answer: b 6) The research method in cultural anthropology that rel ...
... a) Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success. b) Culture is transmitted through biology. c) Culture is passed on from generation to generation. d) Culture forces consistently shape and mold human biology and behavior. Answer: b 6) The research method in cultural anthropology that rel ...
CULTURE, FOR AND AGAINST: PATTERNS OF “CULTURESPEAK
... dangers. It is true that the anthropological idea of culture can be abused and distorted by lack of precision and that lack of restraint in its usage may create political risks, but there are equal dangers in anthropologists’ policing of boundaries. According to the views just quoted, culture as a r ...
... dangers. It is true that the anthropological idea of culture can be abused and distorted by lack of precision and that lack of restraint in its usage may create political risks, but there are equal dangers in anthropologists’ policing of boundaries. According to the views just quoted, culture as a r ...
7 - Antropolis
... Whole new field of inquiry, focus on human body as central fact of all social existence (~> connection with Turner etc. who explored the interface between biology and sociology) (~> connection with psychologists, linguists and cognitive anthropologists) The Sociobiology Debate and Samoa Socio-bio ...
... Whole new field of inquiry, focus on human body as central fact of all social existence (~> connection with Turner etc. who explored the interface between biology and sociology) (~> connection with psychologists, linguists and cognitive anthropologists) The Sociobiology Debate and Samoa Socio-bio ...
Diversity in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences 1
... Diversity in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences processes and their interrelation with corresponding cognitive and social processes. A comprehensive framework will be one that describes how cultural groups are created and maintained, that is sensitive to across- and within-culture variati ...
... Diversity in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences processes and their interrelation with corresponding cognitive and social processes. A comprehensive framework will be one that describes how cultural groups are created and maintained, that is sensitive to across- and within-culture variati ...
Comparing Cultures
... factories, farmers and fisherman expect ours are more advanced. They had people who were rich and people who were poor. Rich people like priests, land owners, and government officials. The common class included farmers and fisherman. In the American culture we have different classes, but sometimes i ...
... factories, farmers and fisherman expect ours are more advanced. They had people who were rich and people who were poor. Rich people like priests, land owners, and government officials. The common class included farmers and fisherman. In the American culture we have different classes, but sometimes i ...
Senior Seminar: Anthropological Approaches to World Issues
... Office hours: Thursdays 2-4 or by appointment Email: [email protected] ...
... Office hours: Thursdays 2-4 or by appointment Email: [email protected] ...
Ethnography - Doral Academy Preparatory
... The heart of ethnography is thick description, that was originally coined by Clifford Geertz (1973). Thick description: explains not just the behavior, but its context as well, such that the behavior becomes meaningful to an outsider - analyzes the multiple levels of meaning in any situation ...
... The heart of ethnography is thick description, that was originally coined by Clifford Geertz (1973). Thick description: explains not just the behavior, but its context as well, such that the behavior becomes meaningful to an outsider - analyzes the multiple levels of meaning in any situation ...
Pedagogy and Politics: Democracy in the Classroom Franke Wilmer
... organizations and communities of faith, for example. They are also shaped by our culture – those activities that produce and on which we draw social meaning. Most of us use a lot of shorthand to make sense out of our social world – generalizations, stereotypes, ‘conventional wisdom’ and various kind ...
... organizations and communities of faith, for example. They are also shaped by our culture – those activities that produce and on which we draw social meaning. Most of us use a lot of shorthand to make sense out of our social world – generalizations, stereotypes, ‘conventional wisdom’ and various kind ...
Museum, Collecting, Agency Flyer
... providing advice for various government agencies on cultural heritage issues and policy development. He plays an important role in working with cultural centres and keeping places in setting up and planning, as well as advising on ongoing training needs. He has published on Indigenous aspects of mus ...
... providing advice for various government agencies on cultural heritage issues and policy development. He plays an important role in working with cultural centres and keeping places in setting up and planning, as well as advising on ongoing training needs. He has published on Indigenous aspects of mus ...
Chapter 17
... • Different child-rearing and practices can produce very large differences in children’s developmental outcome. • The most effective pattern of parenting is authoritative. • It is characterized by provision of standards for children to live up to, reasonable limitations, and love. ...
... • Different child-rearing and practices can produce very large differences in children’s developmental outcome. • The most effective pattern of parenting is authoritative. • It is characterized by provision of standards for children to live up to, reasonable limitations, and love. ...
The cultural economy
... demonstrate how truth claims are sustained in economics (and science) via a web of correspondences. Third, in a quasi- anthropological turn some have sought to examine the practices by which economic life are carried on. In other words to see how economic life is ‘done’. We can note the contrast wit ...
... demonstrate how truth claims are sustained in economics (and science) via a web of correspondences. Third, in a quasi- anthropological turn some have sought to examine the practices by which economic life are carried on. In other words to see how economic life is ‘done’. We can note the contrast wit ...
Symbolic anthropology Symbolic Anthropology Victor Turner (1920
... • Examined different cultural definitions of impurity. • Argued that pollutants play an important role in maintaining social structures. • Example: in Lele culture people have rules for protecting themselves from what they define as polluted feces, blood, military groups, milk, used clothing, & se ...
... • Examined different cultural definitions of impurity. • Argued that pollutants play an important role in maintaining social structures. • Example: in Lele culture people have rules for protecting themselves from what they define as polluted feces, blood, military groups, milk, used clothing, & se ...
Globalization as Americanization? Beyond the Conspiracy
... television networks have had to learn how to speak to a variety of groups and classes at home. This has given them the techniques to appeal to an equally diverse audience abroad. For instance, an art form as essentially American as Jazz evolved during the 20th century into an amalgam of African, Car ...
... television networks have had to learn how to speak to a variety of groups and classes at home. This has given them the techniques to appeal to an equally diverse audience abroad. For instance, an art form as essentially American as Jazz evolved during the 20th century into an amalgam of African, Car ...
APPENDIX B Reflection as Educators: What Does Global Education
... and has consequently opened up new opportunities for students who will possibly be employed and interact with many people representing various cultures, throughout their lifetime, it is imperative that students become fully-aware of international interdependence among various cultures. To understand ...
... and has consequently opened up new opportunities for students who will possibly be employed and interact with many people representing various cultures, throughout their lifetime, it is imperative that students become fully-aware of international interdependence among various cultures. To understand ...
intro to anthro
... … The Lancet …study is based on an analysis of actual and expected sex ratios. The researchers estimate 13.6 million to 13.8 million girls should've been born in India in 1997. But only 13.1 million were. The biggest number of missing females was in couples having their first child. And the gap was ...
... … The Lancet …study is based on an analysis of actual and expected sex ratios. The researchers estimate 13.6 million to 13.8 million girls should've been born in India in 1997. But only 13.1 million were. The biggest number of missing females was in couples having their first child. And the gap was ...
1 “Sociology at the Crossroads” Yerevan State University, Yerevan
... • Communicative and sociological analysis of social inter-(trans-) actions reveals both their social (organizational) and cultural (meaningful) aspects. Social critique is important part of this analysis. It allows to reveal demonstrative and latent aspects of communication process. • The idea of te ...
... • Communicative and sociological analysis of social inter-(trans-) actions reveals both their social (organizational) and cultural (meaningful) aspects. Social critique is important part of this analysis. It allows to reveal demonstrative and latent aspects of communication process. • The idea of te ...
Intercultural competence
Intercultural competence is the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people of other cultures: Appropriately. Valued rules, norms, and expectations of the relationship are not violated significantly. Effectively. Valued goals or rewards (relative to costs and alternatives) are accomplished.In interactions with people from foreign cultures, a person who is interculturally competent understands the culture-specific concepts of perception, thinking, feeling, and acting.Intercultural competence is also called ""cross-cultural competence"" (3C).