This document provides an introduction to cultural studies. It defines culture as the shared characteristics and knowledge of a group, including language, religion, and arts. Culture is learned and transmitted between generations. It manifests in symbols, heroes, rituals, and core values. There are different layers of culture at the national, regional, gender, generation, class, and corporate levels. Cultural differences can be measured using indices like power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity.
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Culture is that complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Socialization can be described as the process of adaptation by individuals to conventional patterns of behavior. It thus occurs because of the individual’s interaction with others and the expression of the culture that operates through them.
Mass Media socialization has its own technical characteristics. There are two major types namely “Print and Electronic”.
culture socialization and education
Culture is that complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Socialization can be described as the process of adaptation by individuals to conventional patterns of behavior. It thus occurs because of the individual’s interaction with others and the expression of the culture that operates through them.
Mass Media socialization has its own technical characteristics. There are two major types namely “Print and Electronic”.
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2. CULTURE
Culture is the characteristics and
knowledge of a particular group of
people, encompassing language,
religion, cuisine, social habits, music
and arts. ...
The word "culture" derives from a
French term, which in turn derives from
the Latin "colere," which means to tend
to the earth and grow, or cultivation and
nurture.
3. DEFINITION OF CULTURE
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of
knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion,
notions of time, roles, spatial relations,
concepts of the universe, and material objects
and possessions acquired by a group of
people in the course of generations through
individual and group striving.
Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by
a relatively large group of people.
Culture is communication, communication is
culture.
4. DEFINITION…
Culture in its broadest sense is
cultivated behavior; that is the totality of
a person's learned, accumulated
experience which is socially
transmitted, or more briefly, behavior
through social learning.
A culture is a way of life of a group of
people--the behaviors, beliefs, values,
and symbols that they accept, generally
without thinking about them, and that
are passed along by communication
and imitation from one generation to the
next.
5. DEFINITION…
Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its
symbols include a group's skills, knowledge,
attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the
symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in
a society through its institutions.
Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of
and for behavior acquired and transmitted by
symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of
human groups, including their embodiments in
artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of
traditional ideas and especially their attached
values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be
considered as products of action, on the other hand,
as conditioning influences upon further action.
6. DEFINITION…
Culture is the sum of total of the
learned behavior of a group of
people that are generally considered
to be the tradition of that people and
are transmitted from generation to
generation.
Culture is a collective programming
of the mind that distinguishes the
members of one group or category of
people from another.
8. Cultural differences manifest themselves
in different ways and differing levels of
depth. Symbols represent the most
superficial and values the deepest
manifestations of culture, with heroes
and rituals in between.
Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or
objects that carry a particular meaning
which is only recognized by those who
share a particular culture. New symbols
easily develop, old ones disappear.
Symbols from one particular group are
regularly copied by others. This is why
symbols represent the outermost layer of
a culture.
9. Heroes are persons, past or present,
real or fictitious, who possess
characteristics that are highly prized
in a culture. They also serve as models
for behavior.
Rituals are collective activities,
sometimes superfluous in reaching
desired objectives, but are considered
as socially essential. They are
therefore carried out most of the times
for their own sake (ways of greetings,
paying respect to others, religious and
social ceremonies, etc.).
10. The core of a culture is formed by values.
They are broad tendencies for preferences
of certain state of affairs to others (good-
evil, right-wrong, natural-unnatural).
Many values remain unconscious to those
who hold them. Therefore they often
cannot be discussed, nor they can be
directly observed by others. Values can
only be inferred from the way people act
under different circumstances.
Symbols, heroes, and rituals are the
tangible or visual aspects of the practices
of a culture. The true cultural meaning of
the practices is intangible; this is revealed
only when the practices are interpreted by
the insiders.
11. LAYERS OF CULTURE
People even within the same culture carry
several layers of mental programming within
themselves. Different layers of culture exist at
the following levels:
The National Level
The Regional Level
The Gender Level
The Generation Level
The Social Class Level
The Corporate Level
12. LAYERS OF CULTURE
THE NATIONAL LEVEL: Associated with the nation
as a whole.
THE REGIONAL LEVEL: Associated with ethnic,
linguistic, or religious differences that exist within a
nation.
THE GENDER LEVEL: Associated with gender
differences (female vs. male)
THE GENERATION LEVEL: Associated with the
differences between grandparents and parents,
parents and children.
THE SOCIAL CLASS LEVEL: Associated with
educational opportunities and differences in
occupation.
THE CORPORATE LEVEL: Associated with the
particular culture of an organization. Applicable to
those who are employed.
13. MEASURING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Power distance index: The index measures the
degree of inequality that exists in a society.
Uncertainty avoidance index: The index measures
the extent to which a society feels threatened by
uncertain or ambiguous situations.
Individualism index: The index measure the extent to
which a society is individualistic. Individualism refers to
a loosely knit social framework in a society in which
people are supposed to take care of themselves and
their immediate families only. The other end of the
spectrum would be collectivism that occurs when there
is a tight social framework in which people distinguish
between in-groups and out-groups; they expect their in-
groups (relatives, clans, organizations) to look after
them in exchange for absolute loyalty.
14. MEASURING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Masculinity index (Achievement vs.
Relationship): The index measures
the extent to which the dominant
values are assertiveness, money and
things (achievement), not caring for
others or for quality of life. The other
end of the spectrum would be
femininity (relationship).