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Understanding Cultural Patterns and Processes in Everyday Life

This piece explores the concept of culture, defined as a shared set of meanings that shape daily practices and interactions. We dive into various components of culture, including values, beliefs, and practices, as well as artifacts, sociofacts, and mentifacts that characterize different groups. The text also discusses habits and customs, distinguishing between individual habits and group customs. Moreover, we examine the process of acculturation and how cultural changes occur through interactions among diverse groups.

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Understanding Cultural Patterns and Processes in Everyday Life

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  1. Introducing Cultural Patterns and Processes http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/h/ha/hagit/476402_african_culture.jpg

  2. What is Culture? • “Culture is a shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life” (Knox and Marston, 2004) • Values • Beliefs • Practices • Religion • Language • Family • Gender • Sexuality www.aust-immig-book.com

  3. Facts about Culture • Artifacts – objects of material culture • Dwelling • Cooking utensils • Dress • Sociofacts – the way groups do things • Interpersonal relationships • The family • Education • Mentifacts – a group’s literature, religion, language and music

  4. Cultural facts http://faculty.evansville.edu www.michelle-wright.com www.foreverwed.com

  5. Habits and Customs • Habit – a repetitive act that a particular individual performs • Custom – a repetitive act of a group performed to an extent that it becomes characteristic of the group http://globaldyn.ipnstock.com

  6. What is acculturation? • Cultural change that occurs in response to extended firsthand contacts between two or more previously autonomous groups (www.anthro.wayne.edu/ant2100/GlossaryCultAnt.htm) • Rapid diffusion of cultural items either by choice of the receiving society or by force from a more dominant society(highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072549238/student_view0/glossary.html)

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