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Unit 2: Culture SOCIOLOGY MR. YOUNG Section 1 DEFINING CULTURE What is culture? Write me a definition for how you would define the term or idea known as culture. How did you come up with this? Why did you use this definition? Defining Culture Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Culture is communication, communication is culture. Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning. A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions. Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action. Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. Working Definition for class Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society Section 2 MAKEUP OF CULTURE What makes up culture 1. What are some things that you believe makes up culture within a society? 2. How is culture passed from one generation to the next (or from native people to immigrant people, or vice versa)? Cultural Makeup Values Morals Beliefs Customs Society Groups Norms American Culture 1. What are some things that you think makes up American culture? 2. What are some things that make up culture living in the “South?” 3. How are they similar? How are they different? Your way of finding culture 1. What would you say is the #1 way you find, understand, view, or interpret culture within your society? Social Media Other Means of Culture Magazines Newspapers Media Sources (CNN, Fox News, etc) Parents Government Societal Group Geographic Area Cultural Heritage Music Section 3 MUSIC AND CULTURE The Impact of Music on Culture I am going to let you listen to several songs and I want you to think about how it has helped to shape popular culture or how it was used as an outlet for what was going on in the culture of that time During each song, I want you to listen and try to answer some of the following questions What is the song talking about? How is the song representative of current culture? How does the song impact or shape culture from its time? Is the cultural themes in the song still relevant today? Song #1: 1950’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw Billy Haley and His Comets “Rock around the clock” Rally cry for teenagers after World War 2 Moral dilemma sweeping the nation Considered to be the song that brought rock n roll into mainstream culture around the world Song #2: 1960’s https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=m y+generation+the+who+lyrics “My Generation” Was used by teenagers who felt alienated from society Also used by civil rights, freedom, and anti-war protest movements (many of them fueled by young people) Song #3: late 1960s, Early 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNnvPBokNs CCR “Fortunate Son” Arguing the Vietnam War and the draft that was occurring over a very controversial war Song of the 1970’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqwKfgLaeA Cats in the Cradle Harry Chapin (1974) About a father who passes his traits to his son Song #4: 1980’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqk_q4NLLI Twisted Sister “We’re not Gonna take it” New generation is rising up against former generation, not going to take what has always been, going to work on changing for the future Song #5: 1990’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FbkTX2bnis Michael Jackson “Black and White” Dealing with race relations around the world Song of the 1990’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zICb-9m2dGA Gagnsta Paradise Coolio (1995) Song #6: 2000’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FotCW5OIFZc Black Eyed Peas (2003) “Where is the love?” Song about losing the battle of love within the world, especially for others around us Hate= Love= Song #7: 2000’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyhnyrbCKw John Mayer (2006) “Waiting on the World to Change” Young people want to make changes within society, but they must unfortunately wait their turn in order to do so Song #8: 2000s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-EJSflgRpQ John Rich (2009) “Shuttin Detroit Down Song about the Recession of the Late 2000’s, and how big business is getting bailed out by government while small business owners, farmers, and workers are being shut down Song #9: 2000’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgDiiuEwkM Lady Gaga (2008) “Paparazzi” Song defines the new generation as one who loves social media and the spotlight Wants paparazzi to follow them so everyone can keep up with their life