The Concepts of Culture

A) Definition of culture: The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education./ expert care of training/acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science......(www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture)

B) Culture: Culture can be defined in tons of different ways.( i realized from reading the notes and websites) I believe that the definition of culture has a lot to do with learned behaviors. It is passed down from generations, and it becomes the norm behavior or the culture to do it. "Culture includes a societies history and traditions, it's past and therefore it's future."(Abdual Sheriff, Culture is not a luxury) For me in my life it is like my daily habits and routines. I go to gymnastics, Christmas, family traditions, language, and much more.

C) Enculturation or cultural transmission is how we learn things as we grow up. The aspects of our life that deal with culture are understood by teaching and learning them, they are not genetic. Also, it could be the way that you learn a different culture. For example if you immerse yourself into a totally different place and culture, you learn to adapt by listening, watching, studying, trial and error, but eventually it would become normal and apart of your culture.
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• Explicit culture is the things that we hand down from generation to generation, things that we can teach and be learned and discussed. For example, holidays. In my family we celebrate Christmas, that is apart of our culture, beliefs, and traditions. Although many other family's do it differently, and celebrate Honica, or Kwanzaa, that is apart of their cultre.
• Tactic culture is things that we learn by watching and observing. There is no discussion or teaching of it but somehow we learn that, that is what is supposed to be done, so we do it to. That is how we learn, without verbalizing. For example, learning to walk as an infant. I think that this would demonstrate tactic culture? When an infant becomes more aware of what is going on around he/she, they notice things like walking. And by trial and error begin to do it themselves. They notice that everyone around them walks and that that is the way to do it, although there is much encouragement by the parents usually :

E and F) For example, it is part of an infants genetic code to desire food, which are triggered by its physiciological characteristics. But, a adults desire to eat cold cereal and milk in the morning has nothing to do with genetics, it is just a learned behavior (culture).(Example from the "what is culture" website. Also, all cultures are different. This happens because everybody grows up, and is taught and learn thing differently. Culture changes through the years, wether it be drastically or very slite, because of the fact that things are not always learned the same way. Cultre a society and its ways of life. All societys are different, which creates different cultures.

G) I think that anthropologists analyze cultural events by enculturation. The best way to analyze is to immurse themselves into it. They learn about other cultures just the same way that we would go about it. They listen, wathch, observe, study traditons, and much more. If you immerse yourself into a different culture for a long enough time, eventually you will understand their culture and ways of life, you will learn to speak the language, and about all of the customs and tradtions etc...

H) I thought that Dr. Archers notes were the easiest to understand out of this material. I felt that i got the best grasp on the material that was in his notes, and was able to understand the websites a little easier.