Unit 2 - Culture

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Unit 2 - Culture

• What do you consider culture?

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Outcomes

• 2.1 demonstrate an understanding of the concept
  of culture
• Describe various elements of culture (e.g.,
  symbols, language, norms, and values).
• Investigate various theoretical perspectives and
  viewpoints that attempt to explain culture (e.g.,
  structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic
  interactionism, feminism and post-modern) as well
  as cultural materialism and sociobiology.
• Apply these theoretical perspectives to given
  cultural scenarios.
• Evaluate influences that shape their cultural
  identity.

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Outcomes

• 2.2 analyze factors related to cultural variation
• Examine factors that contribute to cultural
  variation.
• Investigate the role of ethnocentrism, cultural
  relativism, and dominant culture in cultural
  variation.
• Compare pluralism to multiculturalism in a
  Canadian context.
• Investigate the existence of subcultures and
  countercultures in Canadian society.

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Outcomes

• 2.3 analyze factors related to cultural
  uniformity
• Examine factors that contribute to cultural
  uniformity.
• Investigate the role of popular culture in
  fostering cultural uniformity.
• Formulate a hypothesis regarding the beneficial
  and/or detrimental effects of cultural
  assimilation.
• Compare the attributes of cultural uniformity
  with those of cultural variation.
• Examine the concepts of dominant culture and
  multiculturalism within the context of Canadian
  Society.

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Outcomes

• 2.4 investigate the process of cultural change
• Analyze factors that contribute to the process of
  cultural change.
• Describe the role of cultural lag and cultural
  diffusion in the process of cultural change.
• Assess societys response to the process of
  cultural change.
• Evaluate the beneficial and detrimental effects
  of cultural change.

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So, What is Culture?

• WHY IS THIS THING SO HARD TO DEFINE?

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What is Culture?Please put this in your notes!

• Culture is the combined thoughts, attitudes, and
  beliefs of a group of people who tend to live in
  the same geographic area.
• Although cultures begin within specific
  geographic locations, they can spread across the
  globe due to voluntary or forced migration.
• Culture is expressed through a variety of methods
  including dress, language, religion, and food.

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Cultural Expression Tower

• Food
• Geography
• Language
• Religion
• Dress
• Architecture

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My Cultural Expression Tower

• Homemade bread and tea
• Rocks and ocean
• Whur ya to?
• Lapsed Catholic
• Skirts, dresses, t-shirts
• Old, small houses
• (now apt.)

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Cultural Stereotypes

• Cultural Stereotypes, or National Character?
• Are generalizations about national groups just
  caricatures?

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How can stereotypes be harmful?
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I am Poem

• An I am poem is a poem that is all about you
  and the things that you are.
• This particular I am poem is going to be about
  your cultural identity.
• Using the starter I am finish the sentence
  with something that describes you in terms of
  your culture, how you define yourself.

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My I am Poem

• I am an older sister
• I am from I.A.M, Newfoundland
• I am fish and brewis, molasses buns, and baloney
  stew
• I am losing my accent
• I am Terrys young maid
• I am a terrible Roman Catholic
• I am brightly painted wooden houses and dories
• I am skirts and cardigans
• I am great music, funny TV, and hilariously
  terrible movies
• I am a 3.97 GPA in my last two semesters of my
  undergrad
• I am not getting enough sleep. Ever.

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Now its your turn!

• Get something to write on and something to write
  with and create your own I am poem.
• Be sure to think about the tower of cultural
  expression (but feel free to write about what you
  feel is culturally relevant to you)
• Food
• Geography
• Language
• Religion
• Dress
• Architecture
• 8-10 lines, no more than 15 please!
• Be prepared to share! I wont force anyone but
  participation is an expectation! ?
• This is formative, so I will be collecting these.