This essay focuses on two persistent and basic themes.It can also be described as the complex whole of collective human beliefs with a structured stage
Outline and explain key achievements for Abraham Lincoln Presidency. cultureCulture is the patterns of learned and shared behavior and beliefs of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. It can also be described as the complex whole of collective human beliefs with a structured stage of civilization that can be specific to a nation or time period. Humans in turn use culture to adapt and transform the world they live in.
The anthropological study of culture can be organize along two persistent and basic themes: Diversity and Change. An individual’s upbringing, and environment (or culture) is what makes them diverse from other cultures. It is the differences between all cultures and sub-cultures of the worlds regions. People’s need to adapt and transform to physical, biological and cultural forces to survive represents the second theme, Change. Culture generally changes for one of two reasons: selective transmission or to meet changing needs.
This means that when a village or culture is meet with new challenges for example a loss of a food source, they must change the way they live. This could mean almost anything to the culture, including possible forced redistribution of, or relocation from ancestral domains due to external and/or internal forces.
And an anthropologist would look at that and study their ways to learn from them.
Culture is;
firstly, •Learned through active teaching, and passive habitus.
secondly, •Shared meaning that it defines a group and meets common needs.
thirdly, •Patterned meaning that that there is a recourse of similar ideas. Related cultural beliefs and practices show up repeatedly in different areas of social life.
•Adaptive which helps individuals meet needs across variable environments.
•Symbolic which means that there are simple and arbitrary signs that represent something else, something more.