Culture What is Culture

Culture

What is Culture

• A Way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
• It includes language, what they do, eat, make, believe and how they dress.
• These groups are called “Cultural Groups”

Culture varies around the world

• Buddhist Monks in Myanmar

• English Punk Rocker

SOCIAL GROUPS

• POOR

• RICH

• MIDDLE CLASS

• OLD

• YOUNG

• MEN

• WOMEN

• ETHNIC GROUPS

LANGUAGE Dialect

• GOB vs. WHOOPIE PIE

Religion in Cultures

• Religion is an organized system of beliefs with specific rituals and practices that includes the super natural.
• Religion can guide people in ethics – standards of accepted behavior.

• The Koran – the holy book of Islam.

• The Bible- the holy book of Christianity.

Daily Life

Daily Life (Sports)

History

ART

GOVERNMENT

• Monarchy: Kings and Queens rule.
• Patriarchy
• Matriarchy

GOVERNMENT

• Dictatorship: Individual rules the government any way who or she wants to.

GOVERNMENT

• Democracy: The power is held by the people to vote for their leaders.

GOVERNMENT

• Mixed democracy and monarchy

ECONOMY

• Traditional Economy: Things are done how they always were usually due to customs and beliefs: Religious

ECONOMY

• Market Economy:
• Individuals make decisions about what to produce: They make what people want to buy.

• Right to own property or businesses and choose what job to do.

ECONOMY

• Command Economy: Communism or Socialism
• Government has the control of what you sell and produce

Amish Culture

• The Amish are a sub-culture in America.
• A cultural group that lives within the existing larger national group.
• The Amish Culture keeps to themselves as much as possible.

Amish History

• Religious Group.
• Roots are in Anabaptist movement of the 1500’s.
• Ethnically German-Swiss.
• Amish in America dates from 1693.

Amish Beliefs

• Very strict – especially the Old Order group
• About 198,000 Old Order Amish in United States.
• The Ordnung is an oral tradition of rules which regulates how the Amish way of life should be conducted

Amish Cultural Values

• Family
• Humility
• Anti-individualism
• Calmness & Composure
• Education only to the 8th grade

Amish Virtues

• Modesty and purity are important virtues.
• The Amish are pacifists - they reject all forms of violence.
• They do not serve in the military.
• They admire large families.

Amish Dress

• Amish wear traditional and plain clothing
• It shows they are not conforming to the world.
• It expresses an obedience to their church.
• It shows their lack of vanity.

Education One Room School House

• Formal education beyond Grade 8 is discouraged.

Rejection of Conveniences

• Most Amish reject modern technology such as automobiles.
• They believe it promotes pride or vanity in one’s possessions.

Amish farming is often without machines

Amish Hand Weaving

Hand-made Items