Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Define Culture

1) Human culture: Characteristics of Culture
http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_2.htm

From this website, one can learn a lot of different facts about culture. One will learn that culture is an adaptive mechanism. After reading the article one can learn a lot about culture and how culture can change. Also most people don't know their actual culture. Lastly, after reading this article one will learn that their culture is no longer isolated and that it is open to the whole world.

2) Characteristics of Culture
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/characteristics-of-culture.html

From this website one can learn what culture is and how it is defined. Also after going through this website one can learn many different facts about other cultures. By being able to learn about other cultures you can become a more diverse person and can become more interested other cultures. Lastly, after going through this site you will be able to learn about so much more about several different cultures than you might not have learned or knew prior.

3)
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
http://www.carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html

From this website, a
ccording to the university of Minnesota article, culture is defined in several different ways. The article contains multiple definitions of culture. The article uses definitions from multiple dictionaries and sources. This article provides links to other sections of what is culture and how can it be defined. Lastly, this website provides a way to learn about cultures.

4) What is Culture?
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/grade3/whatisa.html

This website is a major debt of what culture is defined as. This article goes through the definition of culture and the transmission of what culture has became. This article defines the difference between culture and civilization. Lastly, the article defines the difference between race and culture and religion, ethnicity and culture.

5) Definitions of Culture From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture


From this website, it allows you to understand the definition of culture. Wikipedia goes through early modern discourses and also goes to the 20th century discourses. Wikipedia gives a great detail explanation of what culture is and how it is defined. Lastly, Wikipedia goes through several process of where and how culture has been developed and what cultural anthropologist know and think of culture.

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