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| various kidns of collective action by & customs of members of a society, needed to accomplish specific ends ex: colleges, churches |
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one thing anthropologists look for:
cultural artifacts: |
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we interact with the symbols & meanings of actions
iroquis vs. jesuit during last rites |
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| the coding you learn early in life that permits you to interpret the world around you according to your own cultures perspective |
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the work of desribing culture - the central aim is to understand another way oflife from the native POV
"we dont study we learn from ppl" |
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| makes up part of what we're unaware of, a level of unconsciousness that is still a taught practice |
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| understanding of cultural practices via the group/person being studied "insider view" |
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| the principle that ppl shouldn't judge the behavior of others using the standards of their own culture, & that each culture must be analyzed on it's own terms |
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| ideas that explain natural, supernatural, and societal conditions & events |
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| those ideas that ell you what are appropriate goals and choices |
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| the understanding of the cultural practices via the anthropologist by their own categories/concepts "outsiders view" |
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| anthropologists look for: cultural behaviors: |
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| verbal/visual cues for cultural values & instituions presidency-white house cross-christianity |
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| a belief in or assumption of the superiority of the social or cultural group that a person belongs to |
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| those learned and shared aspects of a society, which define its institutions, values, organization, meanings & beliefs & which permit ppl in theose societies to predict the behavior of others in a vairty of social contexts & social relationships |
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one thing anthropologists look for:
cultural knowledge |
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| things people know that generate behavior & interepret experience |
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| relates to values in that meaning tells you why values are appropriate & "common-sensical" - direct the cultures how to interpret events & facts |
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| makes up part of what we know, a level of knowleddge people can communicate about with relative ease |
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| participant observation, informant, cultural knowledge, artifacts, symbolic analysis |
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