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Mind Map by Corina Lerma, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Corina Lerma
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Chapter 6: Cultural Theory and Material
Culture
- Anthropology
- study of man (human beings)
- "scientific study of the physical, social, and cultural development
of man" (101).
- Cultural (or social) Anthropology
- analysis of social life and the relationship between culture and personality
- "cultural turn"
- "not as much a set of things...as a process, a set
of practices" (102).
- Meaning
- "It is by our use of things, and what we say,
think and feel about them-how we represent
them-that we them a meaning" (102).
- "It is by our use of things, and what we say,
think and feel about them-how we represent
them-that we them a meaning" (102).
- "not as much a set of things...as a process, a set
of practices" (102).
- analysis of social life and the relationship between culture and personality
- Linguistic Anthropology
- focuses upon language
- focuses upon language
- Cultural (or social) Anthropology
- "scientific study of the physical, social, and cultural development
of man" (101).
- Archeology
- studies the past, very distant past, by
using very ancient artifacts and other
materials
- studies the past, very distant past, by
using very ancient artifacts and other
materials
- Clotaire Ropaille
- "culture can be thought of as a series of codes that we
learn while we grow up and that shape our behavior in
many different areas" (103).
- "imprints"
- combination of experiences and accompanying emotions
- imprint and its code are like a lock and its combination= reference system
- Cheese Example
- French
- cheese is alive and is stored in cloche
which has holes for air
- cheese is alive and is stored in cloche
which has holes for air
- Americans
- cheese is dead and is stored in plastic
bags in a refrigerator
- cheese is dead and is stored in plastic
bags in a refrigerator
- French
- Cheese Example
- imprint and its code are like a lock and its combination= reference system
- "every artifact reflects certain national, cultural, or
subcultural attitudes and values that have been
imprinted on young children" (104).
- combination of experiences and accompanying emotions
- "imprints"
- "culture can be thought of as a series of codes that we
learn while we grow up and that shape our behavior in
many different areas" (103).
- Mary Douglas
- grid-group theory
- "objects and services that we buy and possess are culturally defined
and best understood as being tied to our lifestyles" (105).
- hostile lifestyles
- elitist
- individualist
- egalitarian
- fatalist
- elitist
- Aaron Wildavsky
- "political cultures"
- "political cultures"
- individuals in all societies have to decide who they are
and what they should do
- hostile lifestyles
- "objects and services that we buy and possess are culturally defined
and best understood as being tied to our lifestyles" (105).
- Culture
- "result of myriads of individual choices,
not primarily between commodities but
between kinds of relationships" (108).
- Artefacts
- selected to demonstrate the choice
- "a struggle to demonstrate not what one is but what one is not" (108).
- "expression of our cultural alignments" (109).
- Songs
- Elitists: "God Save the Queen"
- Individualists: "I Did It My Way"
- Egalitarians: "We Are the World"
- Fatalists: "Que Sera, Sera"
- Elitists: "God Save the Queen"
- Songs
- "expression of our cultural alignments" (109).
- "a struggle to demonstrate not what one is but what one is not" (108).
- selected to demonstrate the choice
- Artefacts
- Mark Gottdiener
- Analysis of mass culture involves three-way relationship
- 1) cultural objects are produced by the
industrial process
- 2) set of institutions that produce and
distribute such objects on a relatively
large scale
- 3) a collectivity(ies) or social groups of those
who use such objects in contexts that can
include use within a creator connotatively
polysemic setting
- 3) a collectivity(ies) or social groups of those
who use such objects in contexts that can
include use within a creator connotatively
polysemic setting
- 2) set of institutions that produce and
distribute such objects on a relatively
large scale
- 1) cultural objects are produced by the
industrial process
- Analysis of mass culture involves three-way relationship
- "result of myriads of individual choices,
not primarily between commodities but
between kinds of relationships" (108).
- grid-group theory
- Myths
- sacred narratives that shape cultural values and behavior
- Raphael Patai
- "traditional religious charter...explaining sociocultural
situations and natural phenomena, taking form of
stories, believed to be true, about divine beings and
heroes" (110).
- "narrative theories"
- "Not only do myths pervade our
media and popular culture, of
particular interest...but they are
found in advertisements for
products" (111).
- "Not only do myths pervade our
media and popular culture, of
particular interest...but they are
found in advertisements for
products" (111).
- "narrative theories"
- Mircea Eliade
- "a primordial event that took place at the beginning of time" (112).
- myths help shape culture, unrecognized myths that inform
many of our behaviors and that are behind many of the things
we purchase (112).
- myths help shape culture, unrecognized myths that inform
many of our behaviors and that are behind many of the things
we purchase (112).
- "a primordial event that took place at the beginning of time" (112).
- "traditional religious charter...explaining sociocultural
situations and natural phenomena, taking form of
stories, believed to be true, about divine beings and
heroes" (110).
- Raphael Patai
- "myth model"
- shapes our behavior
- we can find myths in psychoanalytic theory
- Myth
- Prometheus, who brings fire to mankind
- Prometheus, who brings fire to mankind
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Pyromaniacs
- Pyromaniacs
- Myth
- we can find myths in psychoanalytic theory
- shapes our behavior
- sacred narratives that shape cultural values and behavior
- study of man (human beings)
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