Unit 2 Culture and Communication课件.ppt

Unit 2 Culture and Communication Pre-reading Questions: 1.What does the term culture usually mean to you? 2. What do you know about the functions of culture? 炳蔫酚涵丽则尚腕祖淄疼蚌烟赤搬檄辊屋酌里术醋崎栋瞩惶沈溉棕凿仑翠Unit 2 Culture and Communication课件Unit 2 Culture and Communication课件 Representative Definitions to Culture Culture is notoriously difficult to define. So far there are at least more than 150 definitions to it. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. ------E. B. Tylor,1871 Culture may be defined as what a society does and thinks. ----E. Sapir,1921 What really binds men together is their culture--the ideas and the standards they have in common.-----R. Benedict,1935 Culture is mans medium; there is not one aspect of human life that is not touched and altered by culture. This means personality, how people express themselves(including shows of emotion), the way they think, how they move, how problems are solved, how their cities are planned and laid out, how transportation systems function and are organized, as well as how economic and government systems are put together and function.----Edward T. Hall,1959 措孺通迂井秧娜晶槛态靠媚肆擅裸卡掀妈度荔般聪芭宰厚酪誉届环迸裂递Unit 2 Culture and Communication课件Unit 2 Culture and Communication课件 Continued By culture, anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group. Or culture can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man.---Clyde Kluckhohn,1965 A culture is a collection of beliefs, habits, living patterns, and behaviors which are held more or less in common by people who occupy particular geographic areas.---D. Brown,1978 ...culture refers to the total way of life of particular groups of people. It includes everything that a group of people th