Summary Of American Culture

43617760 Our human lives involve many different things, from our jobs, our family, the shows we watch, our religious tendencies, interacting with all of these people and a number of other tangible ways. Culture is the collection of these things, or our material culture, is the way we live our life. We find material culture in the clothes we wear, the transportation we use, the tools we use and many other things. It does not just extend to the things we do or use, but also the way we think about the things that we do, or our non-material culture. Do we have a positive or negative view on the way someone greeted another person? What do we choose to try to value and what do we choose to believe when there are uncertainties? Members of a cultural group mostly have shared expectations, that are passed on through generations and the institutions of the culture, such as academic organizations, markets, government organizations, religion, entertainment that we enjoy and research
There is no firm definition, though, of what belongs to one person’s culture and not to another’s culture, rather, it is a creation of the society that it represents. Hooker adds a perspective in chapter 1 by pointing to the language and gesturesooHooHOooooodnfsfklhoohooohooheopr. He specifically points to how scratching one’s head can have three distinct meanings depending on the social context. Additionally, Adler and Gunderson, in their What is Culture? section, used a number of different definitions to say that culture is something used by most members of a society, which are passed through generations, to effect a person’s actions and views. That is, one person can have a cultural similarity between someone who lives across the street, while simultaneously have a cultural affiliation with someone across the country that the neighbor across the street