Group Definitions of Culture

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2		Activity 1: Start by reading through eight definitions of culture. Choose the 4 that you like the best and copy/paste them in to the spaces below. Then anaylze your four selected defiitions and identify commonalities and points of diffrence. Finish by creating your own definition of culture that synthesizes the ideas found in the four chosen definitions combined with additional ideas of your own.
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4		Definitions of Culture
5		The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. -Oxford Languages
6		The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. - Merriam-Webster 1
7		The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. -Merriam-Webster 2
8		Shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and understanding that are learned by socialization. - Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
9		An umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. -Wikipedia
10		The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. - dictionary.com
11		The evolving way of life of a group of persons, consisting of a shared set of practices associated with a shared set of products, based upon a shared set of perspectives on the world, and set within specific social contexts. -Patrick Moran
12		The habits of the people in a particular group and the way they generally behave. -Collins Dictionary
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14		Our Top 4
15	1	The evolving way of life of a group of persons, consisting of a shared set of practices associated with a shared set of products, based upon a shared set of perspectives on the world, and set within specific social contexts. -Patrick Moran
16	2	An umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. -Wikipedia
17	3	The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. -Merriam-Webster 2
18	4	The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. - dictionary.com
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20		Similarities		Differences
21		-beliefs -way of life -behaviors -attitudes		-...Norms -...Evolving way of life -...Capacity for learning -...
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23		Putting it All Together
24		-Culture is every single aspect in a determine context that drives a group of individuals to act or to behave in a particular way, this behavior is also subject to other factors that may help these practices to evolve.
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27		Activity 2: Moran's Cultural Knowings Framework "offers a means for describing culture in terms of what students need to do in order to learn it - their encounters with another way of life (p. 15)." Without consulting your book or notes, complete the chart below with your own ideas in order to summarize what each of the four domains of cultural knowledge consists of.
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29		Knowing About		Knowing How
30		Culture information		Cultural practices- behaviors- actions-skills
31		Knowing Why		Knowing Oneself
32		What is the rationale behind the culture under study. Why they do it?		Knowing my perpectives accoring to the culture I am exploring. How do I think? How do I do it?
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34		Moran explains how the content and process of cultural learning should be combined in order to help students learn. Without looking at your book or notes, complete the table below. Content represents what is to be learned, activities represent the process through which the content is learned, and outcomes represent the results of the learning process.
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36			Content	Activities	Outcomes
37		Knowing About	Cultural Information	Gathering Information	Cultural Understanding
38		Knowing How	Cultural Practices	Developing Skills	Cultural Behaviors
39		Knowing Why	Cultural Perspectives
40		Knowing Oneself	Self
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42			Self	Cultural Behaviors	Cultural Information
43			Cultural Knowledge	Self-Awareness	Cultural Perspectives
44			Discovering Explanations	Gathering Information	Reflection
45			Developing Skills	Cultural Understanding	Cultural Practices
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