Research the following and type your answers on this document:

1. Define the term culture. The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement
regarded collectively.

2. Using the following link, answer the following questions:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm
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a. According to the article, what are 2 definitions of culture? For some it refers to an
appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food. For a biologist, it is likely to be a colony of
bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory Petri dish
b. What are the 3 layers of culture? Body of cultural traditions, subculture, cultural universals
c. What is a subculture? In complex, diverse societies in which people have come from many
different parts of the world, they often retain much of their original cultural traditions.
d. List the cultural universals. Examples of such "human cultural" traits include:

1. communicating with a verbal language consisting of a limited set of sounds and grammatical rules
for constructing sentences

2.using age and gender to classify people (e.g., teenager, senior citizen, woman, man)

3. classifying people based on marriage and descent relationships and having kinship terms to refer
to
them (e.g., wife, mother, uncle, cousin)

4.raising children in some sort of family setting

5.having a sexual division of labor (e.g., men's work versus women's work)

6.having a concept of privacy

7.having rules to regulate sexual behavior

8.distinguishing between good and bad behavior

9.having some sort of body ornamentation

10.making jokes and playing games

11.having art

12.having some sort of leadership roles for the implementation of community decisions

e. What is the difference between culture and society? While cultures are complexes of learned
behavior patterns and perceptions, societies are groups of interacting organisms.

3. Define the term stereotype. A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular
type of person or thing.
4. Using the following link, answer the following questions:
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring02/chandler/what-is-stereotyping-page.htm
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a. What are some different categories of stereotypes? Sex, race, age, sexual orentation, religion
and physical ability are various catagories which exist in stereotyping.
b. What is one of the stereotypes youve heard of that is listed in the 1992 gender study? 30
different countries, males were typically characterized as adventurous, powerful, domineering and
independent. Females, on the other hand, were characterized as sentimental, submissive and
superstitious (5). Racial studies have found that descriptions such as Jews are shrewd and ambitious,
African-Americans have special musical and athletic ability and Germans are methodical and efficent,
are commonly used to label these ethnic groups.
c. Why is mass media considered significant to stereotyping? mass media in turn plays a major
role in determining the content of our culture. Stereotyping is a product of culture, therefore, mass
media have a strong influence in supporting and tearing down stereotypical characteristics.
d. Why are stereotypes functional? As audience members we are bombarded with much more
information than we can process. Our tendency is to reduce complexity to simplicity. We trade-off for
simplification, which can lead to inaccuracy and we are often unaware of this deduction
e. What is the most influential factor in stereotyping? Why? Our perceptions are highly
subjective, and many people subscribe to derogatory descriptions of ethnic groups. Unfortunately the
selectivity of a person's perception result in people seeing what they expect to see when they come in
contact with members of an ethnic group they view with prejudice(2).

5. Define family dynamics. Family dynamics are the patterns of relating, or interactions, between
family members. Each family system and its dynamics are unique, although there are some common
patterns.

6. According to this definition, what are your family dynamics? Love Hate