Anthropology and Behaviour HSP3U PDF

Anthropology and Behaviour HSP3U Culture Influences our Behaviour? Our behaviour has a lot to do with what we know and what our culture has taught us. To understand why people behave the way they do, we must understand their worldview. Worldview is influenced by physical environment...

Anthropology and Behaviour HSP3U Culture Influences our Behaviour? Our behaviour has a lot to do with what we know and what our culture has taught us. To understand why people behave the way they do, we must understand their worldview. Worldview is influenced by physical environment social structures (marriage, kinship, politics, economic, etc) Physical Environment and Culture Human have evolved to respond and adapt to their physical environments. True, but it takes millions of years... Physical Environment and Culture Culture helps people to adapt to their physical environment much more quickly that evolution does. Physical Environment and Culture Cold Climate Adaptation - In the Canadian Arctic, Inuit people created warm and waterproof clothing, igloos, and passed those on to children to help them survive. Physical Environment and Culture As they came into contact with Europeans, their cultural ways of survival changed - snowmobiles, nylon parkas, central heating. Technology and Culture Technology and Culture Early humans had stone tools and fur clothing as technology. Technolog y and Culture We have airplanes, cell phones, satellites, vaccinations, and genetic engineering  The adoption by one culture of the technology of another Technological culture. When society adopts new technologies, ideas language, social structure and ultimately culture eventually Diffusion change Technology and Culture Air conditioning - The ability to control indoor temperatures changed how buildings are built, where people live, and how they interact with one another. Neighbours used to sit outside on porches, now they sit inside. How might this affect neighbourhoods and communities? Language and Culture  Understanding the language of a group of people is really to understanding their culture. Languag e and Sometimes it’s hard to Culture communicate the subtleties of a language to an outsider. Even for speakers of the same language, the same words can have different meanings.  What do the following words mean to you? Lit Ghost Extra Language Salty Tea and Based Tweak, Crash out Culture Rizz Chat Lore Brainrot Body Language What is considered appropriate for us may be rude in other cultures. For example… Shaking hands Thumbs up OK symbol Kissing on the cheek Personal space (North American norms): Strangers and in business settings; 1.5 - 3.0 metres Family/friends: 0.6 - 1.2 metres Romantic pair: 0.3 metres or less Economic Systems and Culture Economic Systems and Culture All societies depend on economics systems to produce resources and distribute them. Let’s look at some different types of economic societies: Foraging Society Hunter/Gatherers Labour divided along gender lines Nomadic, mobile Reciprocity, sharing No storing, hoarding All members contribute to survival; status not important Most of human history Economic Systems and Culture Agricultural Societies The discovery of farming (about 10,000 years ago) changed the structure of society People stopped moving, stored crops Less sharing and society divided into social classes; peasants supported nobility Merchant and craft classes developed (not everyone farmed) Economic Systems and Culture Industrial Societies Most people work in wage labour (people paid for work, not products) Industrial Revolution started in England in the 18th Century, but Canada was an industrial nation from the 19th Century until the 1970s. Economic Systems and Culture Postindustrial Societies Since the 1970s, Canada has had a postindustrial economy Most people work in the service sector, producing information or providing a service Wage labour is still part of the system, but jobs don’t pay well and are part time, temporary, or contract work Information is the product that is bought and sold Global system (EG: tshirt cotton grown in India, sewn in China, printed in Mexico, designed/sold in Canada How do any of these factors affect human behaviour? Physical environment Technology Language Economics  Ted Talk: Culture and Behaviou r It’s not about what you see, it’s about what you perceive. What do you think? Overlap between Anthro and Psych Culture drives our thoughts (or perceptions), and therefore our behaviour  Connection to (upcoming) PSYCHOLOGY unit... Cooley’s Looking Glass Theory - says “perception is reality” I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM I AM NOT WHO I THINK I AM I AM WHO I THINK YOU THINK I AM (Read it again)