Symbolic anthropology

A language is one of the many defining aspects of a culture. Language allows for members of a culture to communicate with one another, express ideas, emotion, and most importantly, express who they are as individuals. Certain phrases, or “idioms,” can also be expressed through a culture’s language. These idioms are often unique to a cultural group and can have their own ties to the culture’s history, values, and practices. The remainder of the text will examine the Spanish language, its…

Introduction The culture in Hong Kong is varies from time to time, there are many unclear lines have been drawn in defining the cultural change since there are different narratives told by different “Hong Kongers”. From defining the cultural change in Hong Kong, to taking for granted that a genuine Hong Kong culture does exist. Especially after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, it has propelled the the analysis of social and cultural phenomena in Hong Kong (Cheung & Tam, 1999). So, the period…

Social interaction is an essential social behavior of humankind (Richard E & Robert B, 1965), and it is also a serious part of the sociological research. However, the researching must be based on the study of social ties. With the advent of globalization and commercialization, the competitiveness of connection is an increasingly important issue. The research finding reveals that “the money you make in any endeavor is determined only 12.5 percent by knowledge and 87.5 percent by your ability to…

All of us are conceived with an inner and outer culture. By and by, culture is a general public, religion, dressing, dialect, and race. Outside culture, is the surface, for example, attire, dialect, music, ethnicity, and even religion. Inward culture is the shallow inside, for instance, feelings, values, ethics, correspondence, and even deep sense of being. A person’s outer personality does not recognize their identity or their social character. Our inner culture somewhat does. However, people…

Another translation scholar, Peter Newmark, defines culture as “the way of life and its manifestationsthat are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression” (1988:94). Consequently, each community has its own particular cultural patterns. The translator’s role becomes clearly a transcultural mediator between communities. Newmark sustains (1988:95) that language is not a component of culture, whereas Hans Vermeer remarks (2000:222) that language is part of a…

Being Socially Imaginative The Sociological Imagination is the concept by C. Wright Mills, and it expands on the notion that sociology has a role in everyday life. Another way of seeing it is expanding one's view from their own lives to a broader spectrum of society. Two of Mills’ methods for cultivating a sociological imagination include thinking historically and thinking across kinds of sources, although Mills recommended avoiding using only one method since it could lead to biased results.…

Our topic is about culture and socialization. Culture and socialization are two terms that are mainly linked together. Socialization means a normal process through life which an individual learns values, believes, behavior, and skills related to his or her social position. Socialization makes humans different from animals. Culture is related to where a human as raised and his or her improvement of the mind by education or training. Each society is different than the other, and each different…

3.2.1 – Cross – cultural communication Failures Cross- cultural communication: Cross-cultural communication refers to the exchange of information between people of different cultural backgrounds. Cross-cultural communication deals with the comparison of two or more cultures. Culture has tremendous influence on the communication process. These influences could be at work both via verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal communication: Culture could be understood by how, culture structures…

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

Robert Alan Aurthur wrote, “Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.“ Authors Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros have similar approaches to the idea of cultural differences. Both writers are the children of immigrant parents, and both allow their unique experience with culture to guide their writing . The works of Cisneros and Tan, particularly The House on Mango Street and “Woman Hollering…