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Products, Practices, Perspectives

 

In the teaching of culture, the terms products, practices and perspectives are used.

The following are 3 different (but similar) definitions and some examples.


 

Products consist of concrete cultural elements of a culture such as literature, foods, tools, dwellings, and clothing, or, such abstract cultural elements as a system of laws, an education system, and religions.

 

Practices refer to the patterns of behavior accepted within a society, such as forms of address, use of personal space, rituals, storytelling, sports, and entertainment.

 

The perspectives of a culture are the worldview, namely the attitudes, values, and ideas that characterize a particular society. From perspectives, a culture’s practices and products are derived.

 


           

Product: Anything created by the culture for members of that culture, tangible or intangible, such as food, art, books, educational system, and laws.

 

Practices: What people do, when and where of social interactions, what they do with their products, etc.

 

Perspectives: The attitudes, beliefs, or values of people in a culture.

 


 

Culture: The philosophical perspectives, the behavioral practices, and the products — both

tangible and intangible — of a society:

 

Perspectives: the world view of a culture — the attitudes, values, and ideas that

characterize a particular society.

 

Practices: the patterns of behavior accepted within a society such as forms of address,

use of personal space, rituals, storytelling, sports, and entertainment.

 

Products: the concrete cultural elements (e.g., literature, foods, tools, dwellings, and

clothing) and abstract cultural elements (e.g., system of laws, education system, and

religions) of a society (things created by members of a culture, both tangible and

intangible such as books, tools, foods, laws, music, games)

 


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