I mentioned the term previously, but the main observation observed in the first set of field notes was the material culture. As also previously mentioned, I decided to make my observations in the Brower Student Center, which is the social heart of campus. In this well established building, there are many aspects to the setting that help the college expand access to opportunities. First, we should discuss what material culture essentially is. The term coined “material culture” is essentially any physical aspect of society.
North Africa is categorized regionally with Southwest Asia, separate from sub-Saharan Africa by many factors. For example, NASWA region is more developed and has predominately Arabs living in this realm. The geography theme place is defined as physical and human characteristics that include landforms, people, waterways, languages, climate, transportation, and communication. The Mediterranean Sea border North Africa and Southwest Asia. This realm has river valleys, mountain basins, deltas, and moist coastlines.
This materialist approach shapes culture by putting importance to who dominates over who, who has the most power and finally creates a gap between the societies social
4. Convenience culture: The rise of convenience culture has become a focus on industrial comfort and
The cultural
Ethiopia has very strong cultural and traditional influences that are passed down to every generation. Ethiopia is a country located in Africa with over 70 different ethnic groups coming from nine regional states consisting of the Amhara, Tigray, Afar, Harar, Oromia, etc. Each of these regions constitutes of their own unique cultures, customs, and traditions. Ethiopian fathers work in the fields. Mothers on the other hand, endure continuous stress.
Nonmaterial culture is ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Material and nonmaterial culture are connected with the physical objects symbolizing cultural ideas. Material culture that is used in the movie shows the need of plastic bags that are thought to be a necessity in our society. According to the movie “plastic bags are the number one consumer item in the world” (Bag It). The movie shows the use of plastic bags as material culture throughout our daily lives.
Over the past two decades, researchers inrhetoric, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, for example, have turnedto material culture studies to explore the significance of material artifacts andmaterial strategies for understanding history, culture, race, gender, politics,economics, literacy, and so on. This turn coincides, probably not coincidently,with a linguistic turn in disciplines such as anthropology and archaeology thathave long studied material culture. Bjornar Olsen traces this turn rst understructuralism, a sense that material culture could be read as a text, and thento the challenge of this view under post-structuralism that called for more afuid, process-oriented view of knowledge construction and an opening up ofwhat counts as
Technology is an attribute in everyday society that is always developing and changing. Technology is a lot more than just electrons, technology is “the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.” (Houghton Mifflin). This means that technology can be anything from agriculture, to electronics, and even social interactions. Throughout the hundreds of years, technology has changed into something we use for daily tasks, communication with one another, and how our world works from the past to present day.
It seems that Hollywood likes to portray the Persian culture as being bad and out for everyone, while they portray the Greeks as just protecting themselves from the invaders and winning always with fewer people and by being the more advanced civilized society through the eyes of cinema. I believe it comes down to how we view each of the cultures through perspective, and just plain historical accuracy of the events, much like what was talked about in our lecture. It is through cultural perspective that we get a larger understanding of this portrayal. Cultural perspective plays a huge role in how Hollywood portrays the good and the bad. It’s through cultural perspective on how we view the perception, attitude and our general feelings towards that cultural.
3.3 Ager & Strang model of refugee integration Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants (Ager and Strang, 2008) As I mentioned in the previous chapters refugee integration has identified as a chaotic concept and there is not specific standard definition for the refugee integration (Castles et al., 2001). As a solution Ager and Strang has introduced a theoretical framework for refugee integration and it has mentioned key indicators of the refugee integration (Ager and Strang, 2004). The framework specified ten core domains in that shape understanding of the concept of integration. The domains cover achievement access across the sectors of employment, housing, education, health assumptions and practice regarding citizenship and rights, processes of social connections within and between the groups in the community, at the end they mention some barriers for the successful integration in the host country for refugees; language and cultural knowledge and fear and instability. (Ager and Strang, 2008: 185).
According to the video, there are many elements and aspects of cultures, however each can be categorized as either material or non-material. Material culture means all the physical things that people create and attach meaning to. The examples of material cultures are clothing, food, tools, and architectures. While non-material culture include creations abstract ideas that is not related in physical objects.
Culture is defined by characteristics that are shared by a group of people. It is usually represented by language, religion, cuisine, traditional clothes, music, arts, and is dependent on social habits. Therefore, culture plays a major role in an individual’s perspective of life and his/her personality. Cultures have differed than each other, depending on the places they were established in, the way of survival people pursued to acclimate with different circumstances, and how they shared their experiences with each other.
Culture is the way of life. Culture is generally the beliefs, behaviors, practices, and artifacts a social group shares with each other through commonality. This is rather interchanged with “society” which is difference because society talks about the people who share a common territory or definable region and culture. Culture will not exists without a society, and neither would society exists without culture. Culture consists of two types: material culture, the tangible objects that may be used as symbols to cultural ideas or belongings to society, and nonmaterial culture, the ideas and attitudes of a society, of which both types are linked to each other.
Culture is a very vast and complicated term. As a result, it is extremely difficult to provide an all encompassing definition. In layman terms, culture is used to refer to symbolic markers used by societies to differentiate and distinguish themselves from other societies. These symbolic markers range from religion to customs and traditions to something as basic as language and clothes. Basically culture is a way of living.
