Ch. 3 Culture
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How are you different because of the
culture you were raised in?
 What did your culture give you?
 What in your culture could be detrimental
to you?
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What T.V. programs or video games
support our cultural values of money,
competition, beauty, youth, individualism
and self-expression?
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Should a culture ever make a decision not
to use technology?
Cloning
 Electronic eavesdropping
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How could electronic information chips
implanted in your arm to track you on the
internet change our culture?
Currently driver’s licenses and passports
can have info. Chips.
 Would it reduce crime?
 Would you be willing to give up your
privacy?
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Why is it important to understand
people’s cultural differences?
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How can it help in international and
business relations, personal relations, or in
your personal self concept?
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Does one country have the right to tell
another country what should be
acceptable in that culture?
FGM?
 Women’s rights?
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What judgments do you make about
someone with tattoos, piercings, Goth
dress or hair, or gang symbols?
How did you make these judgments?
 Could this be a subculture or
counterculture?
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Do you see a global culture emerging?
Is that good or bad?
 What is gained or lost?
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Mystery: Why did the Dad kill the
daughter who married for love?
Your response
 Culture
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What happens when you go to
another culture?
Your response
 Culture shock
 Examples
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What type of culture?
What type of culture?
How does culture effect you?
Your ideas
 Norms
 Folkways
 Mores
 Taboos
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Big idea you can use!
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Think about how
your culture
influences your
beliefs and
judgments of
others.
How did the ipod change society
How do conflict, and ideas
change society?
How did the plow create Seattle?