What is the name of a group of people who share similar values and beliefs?
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“Culture is a set of meanings, behavioral norms, and values used by members of a particular society, as they construct their unique view of the world.”Alarcon, Foulks, & Vakkur (1998)“Culture is conceived as a set of denotative (what is or beliefs), connotative (what should be, or attitudes, norms and values), and pragmatic (how things are done or procedural roles) knowledge, shared by a group of individuals who have a common history and who participate in a social structure.”Basabe, Paez, Valencia, González, Rimé, & Diener (2002)“The term culture refers to social reality. It can be defined as a complex collection of components that a group of people share to help them adapt to their social and physical world.”Yamamoto, Silva, Ferrari, & Nukariya (1997)“Culture is a shared pattern of belief, feeling, and knowledge that ultimately guide everyone’s conduct and definition of reality.”Griffith & González (1994)“Culture is a shared organization of ideas that includes the intellectual, moral and aesthetic standards prevalent in a community and the meanings of communicative actions.”LeVine (1984)“Culture is a person’s/group’s beliefs, their interactions with the world, and how they are affected by the environment in which they exist.”Lotrecchiano (2005)“Culture is an integrated pattern of human behavior which includes but is not limited to—thought, communication, languages, beliefs, values, practices, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting, roles, relationships, and expected behaviors of an ethnic group or social groups whose members are uniquely identifiable by that pattern of human behavior.”National Center for Cultural Competence (2001)“Culture is a system of collectively held values, beliefs, and practices of a group which guides decisions and actions in patterned and recurrent ways. It encompasses the organization of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing and behaving collectively that differentiates one group from another. Values and beliefs often function on an unconscious level.”Sockalingam (2004)
Because human beings in different parts of the world and in very different environments developed distinctively different cultures, they “see” and respond to the world in widely varying ways. Social scientists often call a group of people who share a culture an ethnic group. According to Byrd and Clayton, writing in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (Institute of Medicine, 2003), an ethnic group is a group socially distinguished or set apart by others or by itself, primarily on the basis of cultural or national-origin characteristics. Show Most medical anthropologists and sociologists tend to emphasize the cultural and social aspects of groups and often use the terms “ethnic group” and “cultural group” interchangeably. However, both terms tend to be used somewhat loosely. For example, the term “culture of poverty” was used for many years to identify norms and behaviors common to groups of people forced to live in poverty wherever in the world they happened to live. Most cultural groups tend to believe that how they see the world is correct, and how they believe and behave is what is most natural to human beings, that is, “human nature.” However, in learning about culture, we need to understand that to have culture is human nature, but no specific culture is human nature! When people insist on their own culture as the only correct way to understand the world, they are said to be demonstrating ethnocentrism. It is easy to fall into this fallacious way of thinking. We all do it from time to time; however, the culturally aware person is far less likely to unthinkingly fall into this cognitive trap.  cul·ture | \ ˈkəl-chər \ 1a : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time popular culture Southern culture b : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization a corporate culture focused on the bottom line c : the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic studying the effect of computers on print culture Changing the culture of materialism will take time …— Peggy O'Mara d : the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations 2a : enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training b : acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills a person of culture 3 : the act or process of cultivating living material (such as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media also : a product of such cultivation 4 : cultivation, tillage We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.— Alexander Pope 5 : the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education 6 : expert care and training beauty culture cultured; culturing\ ˈkəlch-riŋ , ˈkəl-chə- \ What are Shared behaviors?In particular, sharing behavior, defined as willingly giving resources to others, is an important form of prosociality in adults (Gurven, 2006) and children (Dunfield, Kuhlmeier, O'Connell, & Kelley, 2011). The roots of sharing behavior can be traced back to infancy. What do you call the values practices and beliefs shared by a group of people with common background?Culture is the beliefs, values, mind-sets, and practices of a specific group of people. It includes the behavior pattern and norms of a specific group—the rules, the assumptions, the perceptions, and the logic and reasoning that are specific to a group. What is the name of a group of people who share similar values and beliefs? Culture is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs. What is a community of people sharing a common belief system?Religion A set of shared beliefs and rituals common to a special community and focusing on the sacred and supernatural. Religious movement An organized religious group with the primary goal of changing existing religious institutions. |
