Cultuur Toerisme CTV 09

• Praktische economie
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Chapter 1 the Dimensions of Culture part I

Instructor: M.J.Arends

Course: CTV09

Period: 09

Learning objectives

After studying this chapter you should be able to:

* Explain the broad basis of the cultural phenomenon

* distinguish between the two apprroaches to defining culture

Sociologist concern with the internal structure of the groups seen as producers and keepers of culture

How is culture learned and passed on from one generation to another one.

How is culture maintained among the members of the group

What is the influence of the culture of the group’s social structure

How are cultural meanings interpreted and conveyed to different cultures?

What does culture playing the distribution of power within a social group?

What is the role of language in maintaining cultural and national identity?

What triggers cultural changes?

How do we communicate and read symbols?

What is Culture

1.2.1

An anthropological approach to culture assumes that culture is everything and is everywhere.

Broadly speaking, culture refers to a general phenomenon characteristics of all human groups as their way of living.

In the human sciences, culture refers to the creation and use of symbols which distinguish a particular way of life, whether of people, period or a group or humanity in general.

What is Culture

Social Control

1.2.2

A group's culture is maintained by means of social control

The purpose of social control is to maintain a group's cultural identity and, more importantly to keep the group stable.

What is Culture?

Agencies of Control

1.2.3

Borgadus (1920) divides the agencies of social control into two main groups:

* Positive social control

*Negative social control

The traditional nature of culture

1.3

Tradition refers to the following

*transmitted elements of culture (language)

*a body of collective wisdom (knowledge), and

* customs that are passed down from generation to generation.

Cultural indentities and cultural pride

1.3.1

*often associated with a place and can relate to a locality, region  or country.

*Elements of tradition and cultural pride are significant to Cultural Tourism.

Oral cultures and traditional communities

1.3.3

*Oral transimission of culture

*Modern cultural tourists

Aspects of Culture

1.4

the sociological approach to culture distinguishes the following four apsects of culture:

*Material aspects of cultureconsisting of objects

* Non-material aspects of culture consisting of rules and traditions

* Cognitive culture consisting of shared beliefs, and

*language

Reflections