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What Is Culture?

What Is Culture?. Christ and Culture , pp. 35 - 36. Defining “Culture”:. Culture is something that is difficult to define because it encompasses many aspects of our day to day living.

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What Is Culture?

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  1. What Is Culture? Christ and Culture, pp. 35 - 36

  2. Defining “Culture”: • Culture is something that is difficult to define because it encompasses many aspects of our day to day living. • CULTUREis a set of meanings, beliefs, values and rules for living shared by groups and societies as the source of their identity.

  3. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Humans create culture: • Culture distinguishes us from the rest of nature. • Only humans have culture.

  4. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture consists of ways of doing things: • It is not about the actions, but about how we do those actions and the meanings and beliefs about how things should be done. • Culture is a set of values about things we do everyday, such as driving cars, opening doors or going to the movies.

  5. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture is public: • Culture is about how we as a community of people do things. • It is not private; it is public. • Ex: Media; parades; sporting events

  6. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture arises from tradition: • Many of the ways we do things, we got from our parents / ancestors. • Some of these traditions go back hundreds or thousands of years. • Ex: Family traditions; sports traditions; Catholic Mass

  7. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture is made up of rule-governed actions: • Because the way we do things comes from tradition, we feel that we have a duty to keep them that way. • The traditions function like rules. • Ex: Catholic Mass; family dinners; Super Bowl / Stanley Cup Playoffs

  8. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture becomes established in institutions: • Over time, our way of doing things becomes established in a set and familiar way. • Actions are linked together to form a “system” of doing things. We sometimes call these systems institutions (i.e. institution of family). • Ex: School, Parish, Youth Group, Soccer Team

  9. Seven Characteristics of Culture • Culture gives us our identity: • The way we do things gives us a sense of our cultural identity. • The way we do things in Canada is different from the way things are done in other countries. • Ex: Italian-Canadian, Catholic, hockey player

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