The word culture is one of those terms that we use quite often, but what is it exactly? If you were to ask a group of anthropologists whose job it is to study culture, you may get a different definition from each of them. However, even though definitions of culture may differ, many of them do emphasize similar things. For the purposes of this lesson, we'll define culture as the complex whole of a society. So this can include everything that gives a society its identity, which would include such things as language, beliefs, values, customs, laws, cuisine, etc.
What is particularly fascinating about cultures is that each culture, no matter where it is located, shares at least five basic characteristics. This means the Mayan culture, which is now extinct, shared at least five basic characteristics with present-day American culture. The five basic characteristics that all cultures share are that they are learned, shared, based on symbols, integrated, and dynamic.
Learned and Shared
When we are born we don't automatically know all the values, words, beliefs, customs, etc. that our culture has adopted. We do not inherit culture. Culture is learned. While much of what we learn about a culture can be learned through school, family, peers, and the media, there are often many things about a culture that are learned subconsciously. For example, we may learn when particular holidays occur in school, like Christmas is always on December 25th. However, the norms and what it means to be 'in the Christmas spirit' is something we don't have a conversation about or read in a book. It comes from many years of observing others and just being around people who celebrate Christmas.
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The way Karla's adoptive parents explain her about the adoption and tell that her birth parents were caring people who made a loving and painful decision is an entrance kind of story. It is very how to tell the story of how the child was born, placed for adoption, and integrated into their family.
Answer: According to Piaget, May Lin's ability to use a doll as a representation of a real baby illustrates that she is capable of: SYMBOLIC FUNCTION.
Explanation: Symbolic function in Piagetian theory illustrates the ability of an individual to mentally use an object (the doll) to represent something that is not physically present (her baby brother).
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diets
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The foreign fast food chains and supermarkets in Asia contributed to significant change in the diets of the people in the Asian nations. The main reason for this is that the fast food chains and the supermarkets offer tasty and cheap foods, which the people find them both very nice for eating and economically justifiable. Unfortunately, these foods contain lot of fats and sugars, resulting in increasing rates of obesity in the Asian nations, and in accordance to that much more health problems.