The document discusses the concept of culture and what comprises a culture. It notes that culture includes aspects like arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, inventions, language, technology, values, politics, and economy. It then asks and discusses questions about what languages people speak, what they wear, how they prepare food, where they live, their work, and how they govern themselves. The document emphasizes that culture is shared within a society and passed down between generations through processes like social learning via language, watching, and imitating behaviors.

1. Sandra Vega Carrero

2. Every human has a culture

3. CULTURE
Arts Beliefs Customs
Institutions Inventions
Language Technology
Values
Politics
Economy Meals

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WHAT IS
CULTURE?

5. CULTURE
What languages do the people speak?
What do the people of the society wear?

6. CULTURE
How do they prepare their food?
What kind of dwellings do they live in?

7. CULTURE
What kind of work do they do?
How do they govern themselves?

8. CULTURE
How do they judge right from wrong?

9. CULTURE
People learn a culture by growing up in
a particular society.

10. CULTURE
They learn through:
Language
Watching
Imitating
Behaviors

11. PROCESS OF
ENCULTURATION
CULTURE
Shared with
members
Of a society and
passed from one
generation to the
next.

13. Methods of
obtaining food
and shelter

14. Methods of
obtaining food
and shelter
Family
relationships

15. Methods of
obtaining food
and shelter
Family
relationships
Economic and
governmental
system

16. Religious
practices
Forms of artistic
expression

17. Typical breakfast

19. Sharing
Beliefs

20. Ways of
thinking

21. “A thing that represents or stands
for something else. A material
object representing something
abstract”

22. English
Spanish
French
Swahili
DOG
PERRO
CHIEN
Mbwa

23. In Western societies, Black
is the color of mourning
For Chinese people, white
is a color of mourning

24. A group of
Create
CULTURAL TRAITS
CULTURAL Patterns

25. Every time that a member is
exposed to different
behaviors, habits and
beliefs. If one is dominant,
the member from the other
community will loose its
original culture and will
assimilate, and adopt the
new one. Otherwise the
member will reject them
and will keep its own values

26. Every member
individually has its
own identity and
it is constantly
reorganized.
The group in
general is
constantly going
through dynamic
change and the
rules and habits of
interactions can
be modified.