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The idea of a science of society can be said to have emerged in the eighteenth century Enlightenment, a period in European history characterized by intellectual innovations, ranging across the arts, literature, science and engineering.
Society refers to the totality of social organizations, such as corporation, school, hospitals and religious groups that share a common habitat or a territorially defined place and depend on each other for survival.
While culture is the core concept in cultural anthropology and is an important concept in sociology.
Although the basic types of cultural behavior are universal, in most cases they differ in form from one culture to another.
Take endorsement of the body. In the United States, it has many ways of changing the natural appearance of the human body.
It is the most ancient and widely encountered form of permanent body alteration. The practice of tattooing is believed to have spread from the Middle East, through India, China and Japan to Pacific Island cultures as early as 2000 BC.
On a fairly simple level, some people do things such as comb their hair a certain way, pierce their ears, or polish their nails.
Others have parts of their body designed with tattoos, permanent mutilations of the body following patterns that are unique to our culture.
Tattoos in other cultures are quite different. As early as 300 BC Japanese and Chinese society tattooed their faced to protect themselves from evils forces.
Still others have cosmetic surgery such as nose jobs, hair transplant, and silicone injections to change their appearance.
In other cultures the ways in which the body is adorned are quite different. Some of the better known examples, such as the extended lower lip of the Ubangi women, or a bone inserted into a pierced nose, seem bizarre to us. But in every culture we find some form of adornment.
Among some South American Indian tribes boards are tied firmly against the head of an infant to change the shape of the skull.
The sense of ‘culture' as a ‘whole way of life’ has been most marked in twentieth century anthropology and sociology.
Different society with different culture
- Early History Of National Geographic
The formation of the National Geographic Society, dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of specialized geographic knowledge. The National Geographic Society origins, growing out of the meeting between a group vocational scholars and a few celebrated...
- The Nature Of Ethnocentrism
Culture shock can be an excellent lesson to relative values and in understanding human differences. The reason culture shock occurs is that we are not prepared for these differences. Because of the way we are taught our culture, to some degree we are...
- The Origin Of Noodles
The whole history of noodles is one of innovation over the centuries. Noodles were gradually adopted by other cultures around the world. 5000 B.C Wheat flour, believed to originate in the Middle East, serves as the basis of the first “noodles.” Wheat...
- Kalervo Oberg (1901 -1973)
Kalervo Oberg was a an anthropologist who introduced the term ‘culture shock’. He popularized one concept that would become a powerful influence on the popular imagination and which also strongly conditions the view of culture as contrast. Kalervo...
- Cultural Anthropologist: Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton began his career as an archeologist, but later turn to cultural anthropology. His ethnographic fieldwork took him to Polynesia and Madagascar, as well as on archeological expeditions in Latin America and the United States. Ralph Linton was...
Education
Different society with different culture
The idea of a science of society can be said to have emerged in the eighteenth century Enlightenment, a period in European history characterized by intellectual innovations, ranging across the arts, literature, science and engineering.
Society refers to the totality of social organizations, such as corporation, school, hospitals and religious groups that share a common habitat or a territorially defined place and depend on each other for survival.
While culture is the core concept in cultural anthropology and is an important concept in sociology.
Although the basic types of cultural behavior are universal, in most cases they differ in form from one culture to another.
Take endorsement of the body. In the United States, it has many ways of changing the natural appearance of the human body.
It is the most ancient and widely encountered form of permanent body alteration. The practice of tattooing is believed to have spread from the Middle East, through India, China and Japan to Pacific Island cultures as early as 2000 BC.
On a fairly simple level, some people do things such as comb their hair a certain way, pierce their ears, or polish their nails.
Others have parts of their body designed with tattoos, permanent mutilations of the body following patterns that are unique to our culture.
Tattoos in other cultures are quite different. As early as 300 BC Japanese and Chinese society tattooed their faced to protect themselves from evils forces.
Still others have cosmetic surgery such as nose jobs, hair transplant, and silicone injections to change their appearance.
In other cultures the ways in which the body is adorned are quite different. Some of the better known examples, such as the extended lower lip of the Ubangi women, or a bone inserted into a pierced nose, seem bizarre to us. But in every culture we find some form of adornment.
Among some South American Indian tribes boards are tied firmly against the head of an infant to change the shape of the skull.
The sense of ‘culture' as a ‘whole way of life’ has been most marked in twentieth century anthropology and sociology.
Different society with different culture
- Early History Of National Geographic
The formation of the National Geographic Society, dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of specialized geographic knowledge. The National Geographic Society origins, growing out of the meeting between a group vocational scholars and a few celebrated...
- The Nature Of Ethnocentrism
Culture shock can be an excellent lesson to relative values and in understanding human differences. The reason culture shock occurs is that we are not prepared for these differences. Because of the way we are taught our culture, to some degree we are...
- The Origin Of Noodles
The whole history of noodles is one of innovation over the centuries. Noodles were gradually adopted by other cultures around the world. 5000 B.C Wheat flour, believed to originate in the Middle East, serves as the basis of the first “noodles.” Wheat...
- Kalervo Oberg (1901 -1973)
Kalervo Oberg was a an anthropologist who introduced the term ‘culture shock’. He popularized one concept that would become a powerful influence on the popular imagination and which also strongly conditions the view of culture as contrast. Kalervo...
- Cultural Anthropologist: Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton began his career as an archeologist, but later turn to cultural anthropology. His ethnographic fieldwork took him to Polynesia and Madagascar, as well as on archeological expeditions in Latin America and the United States. Ralph Linton was...