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16 Cards in this Set
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represents a coalescence of discrete behavioral norms and cognitions shared by individuals within some definable population that are distinct from those shared within other populations
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Culture
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Shared motives, values, beliefs, identities, and interpretations or meanings of significant events that arise from common experiences of members of collectives and are transmitted across age generations
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Culture
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Four Originations of Culture Study
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Biological anthropology
Linguistics Cultural anthropology Archaeology |
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Layers of culture are called __________
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Levels of Abstraction
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The three levels of Culture
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1.Low abstraction: surface-level
2. Medium Abstraction 3. High Abstraction: deep-level |
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Observable artifacts are what type of culture
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Low Abstraction - surface level
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Values, norms, ideologies
are what type of culture |
Medium abstraction
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Shared, underlying, unconscious assumptions
are what type of culture |
High Abstraction: Deep-level
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Ways to help members share culture
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Ceremonies,
rites, rituals , stories, myths, heroes, symbols, language, |
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Theory that language completely governs one’s capacity to think.
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: Benjamin Lee Whorf,
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Review of primate studies by W.C. McGrew (1998) focus on culture as a ______________-
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Process
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Three theories on why culture emerged:
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1. Terror Management Theory
2. Epistemic perspective 3. Dynamic Social Impact Theory |
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Culture emerged as a psychological buffer against the awareness of our own mortality. We attain “symbolic immortality” through cultural rituals, etc.
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The Terror Management Perspective
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We like the idea of verifiable knowledge. We want to be validated. Having a shared reality because of culture helps with this.
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The Epistemic Perspective
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Interpersonal communication (close proximity)social influence “clusters” of beliefs and behaviors strengthen over time as they are behaviorally reinforced
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Dynamic Social Impact Theory (Latane, 1996)
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being able to follow different cultural paradigms in different contexts
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Cultural frame switching
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