shared culture

Examples of shared culture in the following topics:

• The Symbolic Nature of Culture

  • The symbolic systems that people use to capture and communicate their experiences form the basis of shared cultures.
  • This view of culture argues that people living apart from one another develop unique cultures.
  • Cultures are shared systems of symbols and meanings.
  • Alphabets are one example of a symbolic element of culture.
  • Relate the idea that culture is symbolically coded to arguments about the dynamism of cultures

• Culture, Ethnicity, and Race

  • Culture is the non-biological or social aspects of human life ; basically anything that is learned by humans is part of culture.
  • This second avatar is reflective of a particular culture.
  • Culture is more than the object or behavior.
  • Ethnicity, while related to race, refers not to physical characteristics but to social traits that are shared by a human population.
  • When you judge another culture solely by the values and standards of your own culture you miss significant aspects of the other culture of the members of your audience.

• Context of Culture and Gender

  • The same applies to both race and culture, respectively.
  • Race refers to groups of people who are distinguished by shared physical characteristics, such as skin color and hair type.
  • Culture refers to the customs, habits, and value systems of groups of people.
  • People of the same race may not share the same culture; similarly, a culture isn't necessarily comprised of people of the same race.
  • Pay attention to the unique dynamic and interplay of your gender and cultural identity in relation to the cultural and gender identities of your audience members, as they invariably influence one another.

• Building a Culture of High Performance

  • A high-performing culture is a results-driven business culture focused on generating efficiency and completing objectives.
  • This creates a strong culture of shared leadership which in turn can generate above-average results and highly motivated employees who trust one another.
  • Culture is defined by creating its own consciousness in an organization, indicating shared norms and values.
  • These shared values create an expectation of success, both professional and personal, that can create high levels of trust and shared accountability.
  • In short, shared values are key to creating strong team dynamics.

• Cultural Universals

  • A cultural universal is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide.
  • The elements of culture include (1) symbols (anything that carries particular meaning recognized by people who share the same culture); (2) language (system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another); (3) values (culturally-defined standards that serve as broad guidelines for social living; (4) beliefs (specific statements that people hold to be true); and (5) norms (rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members).
  • There is a tension in cultural anthropology and cultural sociology between the claim that culture is a universal (the fact that all human societies have culture), and that it is also particular (culture takes a tremendous variety of forms around the world).
  • The idea of cultural universals—that specific aspects of culture are common to all human cultures—runs contrary to cultural relativism.
  • Discuss cultural universals in terms of the various elements of culture, such as norms and beliefs

• Observable Culture

  • Culture includes many factors, such as:
  • Ravasi and Schultz (2006) stated that the culture of an organization is the asset of shared mental assumption by the members of the organization.
  • These shared mental assumptions guide interpretation and action in organizations by defining appropriate behavior for various situations.
  • Observable culture simply refers to the parts of an organization's culture that can be observed, such as a symbolic CEO, a business policy, or even a product .
  • Recognize the way in which intrinsic organizational culture is transmitted into an observable, public face for organizational culture

• Influenced by Overall Culture

  • Ravasi and Schultz have described organizational culture as the set of shared mental assumptions that guide interpretation and action in organizations by defining appropriate behavior for various situations.
  • Organizational leaders must also be cultural leaders and help facilitate the change from the two old cultures into the one new culture.
  • This is done through cultural innovation followed by cultural maintenance.
  • Cultural innovation includes:
  • Creating a new culture: recognizing past cultural differences and setting realistic expectations for change

• Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture

  • How do sociologists study culture?
  • One approach to studying culture falls under the label 'cultural sociology', which combines the study of culture with cultural understandings of phenomena.
  • Because these two neighborhoods are distinct yet share a border, this research site provides numerous opportunities for the exploration of culture.
  • Not surprisingly, cultural conflict is an optimal scenario for the exploration of culture and cultural interaction.
  • First, he found a cultural border that presented cultural conflict.

• Animals and Culture

  • Animal culture refers to cultural learning in non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors.
  • Animal culture refers to cultural learning in non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors.
  • The question of the existence of culture in non-human societies has been a contentious subject for decades due to the inexistence of a concise definition for culture.
  • This behavior is shared by a group of animals, but not necessarily between separate groups of the same species .
  • The acquisition and sharing of behaviors correlates directly to the existence of memes, which are defined as "units of cultural transmission" by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

• Culture and Society

  • Culture is what differentiates one group or society from the next; different societies have different cultures.
  • A culture represents the beliefs and practices of a group, while society represents the people who share those beliefs and practices.
  • Material and nonmaterial aspects of culture are linked, and physical objects often symbolize cultural ideas.
  • For instance, the high culture of elites is now contrasted with popular or pop culture.
  • In this sense, high culture no longer refers to the idea of being "cultured," as all people have culture.