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The Idea of culture - Culture is Made up of Learned Behaviors

4 important questions on The Idea of culture - Culture is Made up of Learned Behaviors

What is the school/theory of culture and personality? (2)

-cultures could be best understood by examining the patterns of child-rearing and considering their effect on adult lives and social institutions. (1920-1950)
- M. Mead and R. Benedict's idea that each culture has a dominant personality encouraged in each individual through child-rearing.

What is symbolic anthropology?

A theoretical approach that focuses on culture as a web of meaning. The task of the anthropologist is to unravel those symbolic meanings.

What is structuralism/structural anthropology?

- A theoretical perspective that holds that all cultures reflect similar deep, underlying patterns and that anthropologists should attempt to decipher these patterns.

What did structuralist Levi-Strauss belief?

Levi-Strauss' compared the myths and beliefs of different cultures to isolate common patterns. They believed that these reflect a universal underlying patterning of human thought: the tendency to divide everything into 2 opposing classes, as well as a third class that crosses the boundary between these two.