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What is Culture?

What is Culture?. What is a custom? What examples could be used for El Paso?. 29. 30. Culture Pyramid. Elements of Culture . Way of life of a group of people share beliefs and similar customs . Things people usually do.

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What is Culture?

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  1. What is Culture? • What is a custom? • What examples could be used for El Paso?

  2. 29 30 Culture Pyramid Elements of Culture Way of life of a group of people share beliefs and similar customs. Things people usually do. Based on rules for the proper behavior of individuals in particular positions and situations. Organizations developed by each society to make social roles clear and to take care of social needs. A set of beliefs about the meaning of life, the nature of the universe, and the existence of the supernatural How people live together. Rural = countryside Urban = City People who share similar wealth, power, and prestige are said to belong to the same social class Culture Customs Roles Institutions Religion Rural v. Urban Social Structure

  3. Elements of Culture Mrs. Duffy September 4th

  4. Culture • Way of life of a group of people share beliefs and similar customs. • Definition: Shared patterns of learned behavior that are passed on from generation to generation.

  5. What is Culture? • A people’s way of life, which includes: • Language, literature, art, and music • Beliefs including religion • Customs, including clothes, food, forms of shelter, and traditions • Institutions, including family, schools, and government. • Technology and material goods

  6. What is Culture? Customs • Things people usually do. • Dress • Eat • Celebrate holidays • Turning points in life • Marriage • Parenthood • Death

  7. What is Culture? Roles • Based on rules for the proper behavior of individuals in particular positions and situations.

  8. What is Culture? Institutions • Organizations developed by each society to make social roles clear and to take care of social needs

  9. What is Culture? Religion • A set of beliefs about the meaning of life, the nature of the universe, and the existence of the supernatural

  10. What is Culture? Rural or Urban • How people live together. • Rural = countryside • Small huts • Simple cottages • farms • Urban = city • Buildings of steel, concrete, and glass • Hot and cold water • Sewage system • Internet

  11. What is Culture? Social Structure • People who share similar wealth, power, and prestige are said to belong to the same social class

  12. What is your culture? Illustrate an example of each of the following terms. Religion Social structure Customs Role Institution Rural or Urban

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