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31 Cards in this Set
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What does culture give us? |
Beauty and Order |
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The 3 basic elements of culture |
1. Has to do with human actions - speaking 2. Set of meanings, beliefs, values and practices of a society - food service 3. Identifies a person as belonging to a particular group - At Christmas, our Church... |
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Most basic element of culture |
Human action |
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Why is culture everything? |
Pervades all we do |
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Who's Clyde Kluckhohn; how many definitions did he find? |
American Anthropologist; 160+ |
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4 culture traits and definition |
1. Humans create culture - only humans have it 2. Culture consists of ways of doing things - culture is about form, meaning, and beliefs for things 3. Culture is public - how we all do things 4. Culture is made of rule-governed actions - tradition functions like rules, and we feel a need to follow tradition |
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Culture |
Set of meanings, beliefs, values and rules for group/societies as a source of their identity |
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Oglala tribe |
Lakota |
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Sacred and evil |
Good: circles Bad: stone |
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Symbol of world and time |
Circle |
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Sign |
Object/gesture that expresses message or meaning |
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Why do symbols do little on their own? |
They need to be connected with a context to make sense |
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Symbol meaning; what's thrown together? |
"Thrown together"; Intangible things thrown together with tangible things |
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How do we make rituals from our everyday events? |
By dealing with certain needs |
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Where does ritual behaviour come from in animals? |
Biological and social need |
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Powerful culture 1 |
Passes on a tradition |
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Powerful culture 2 |
Needs our body |
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Powerful culture 3 |
Accompanied by words - words help us give meaning to events; they express and make real an effective symbol |
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Powerful culture 4 |
Form a community |
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Two components of Church's sacraments |
Bodily and Spiritual |
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Chart: Birth Death/life experience Marriage Sickness Death |
Touch Water Ring/Embrace Oil/Touch Burial |
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Religion |
System of symbols/rituals |
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Religious ritual |
Enacts the bond that symbols show between us and the sacred |
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Where earliest humans came from |
Africa |
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Liturgy |
Official act of worship by the Catholic Church |
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Antigonish movement |
-Broke culture silence -Taught them how to make changes -Educated -Empowered -Taught cooperation, trust, and peace/harmony |
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Transcendance |
Being beyond normal physical experience |
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Secular |
Living in the world; not Religious/sacred |
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Why is Church not appealing? |
Doesn't fit with our personal way of life |
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Effects of institutional privatization |
Institutions weaken and die without support |
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Religious symbols |
Symbols manifest the sacred:
1. Stars 2. Earth 3. Oil 4. Water 5. Smoke |
