Cultural Patterns:

Cultural Practices - Products - Perspectives 

 

 

Explanation

Examples


Cultural Perspectives


opinions accepted as being right or true (AKA belief systems)

"a feeling"

belief

 

  • There is one God.
  • Girls should not go to school.
  • Cows are sacred.
  • Only men should be in government.

 

Cultural Practices

 

patterns of behavior accepted by a society

"an action"

doing

 

  •  eating meat
  • going to church
  • watching football
  • voting
  • making pottery

  

Cultural Products

items created by a society; can be tangible (able to touch - such as books, tools, clothes) or intangible (not able to touch - such as plays, music stories)

"a thing"

  • poetry
  • jewelry
  • church
  • laws
  • medicine
  • clothes
  • songs
  • game of checkers

 


Try coming up for synonyms for each term...

Culture

Perspective

Practice

Product

 

Synonyms

 society

community

beliefs

feelings

views

thoughts

opinions

behavior

doing

action

activities

traditions

items

objects

goods

things

 

A culture’s perspectives influence both its products and practices.


(Perspective)


(Practices)


(Products)

 

 

(Perspective)                                                              Cows are sacred.

  •  Not eating meat from cows.
  • Not wearing leather.
  • Creating statues of cows.

(Practices)

  • Statues of cows
  • laws protecting cows
  • food from other animals

(Products)

 


(Perspective)                                    All religions are acceptable.

  •  going to different places of worship
  • praying

(Practices)

  •  church
  • Bible, Koran, or Torah

 (Products)

  







 
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