What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
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What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
Culture describes the conventions of a community, which guide individuals into regular behaviors and provide communal meanings and values.
What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography
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Culture, writes anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, consists of “meaningful orders of persons and things.” Conventions explain not only why certain persons do certain things, but the origin of collective meanings and orders. To follow the same arbitrary rules as another individual is to be part of the same “collectivity.” As groups share certain pract
... See moreW. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Cultures reveal differences through following different conventions, or taking different meanings and values from the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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lots of people make playlists - it is our culture that we make them together - not exclusively but it is the conventional approach within our culture
anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s description of culture as “best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns—customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters” but instead as “a set of control mechanisms—plans, recipes, rules, instructions—for the governing of behavior.” Conventions create habits and patterns of behavior through carrots of social
... See moreW. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
conventions are the individual units of culture.
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
A custom is a long-established, unconscious convention that has been internalized.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added
this convention is now a custom - we have a custom of making collaborative playlists
As soon as you start down the slippery slope of doing things based on convention, you are diluting your independence and uniqueness, which is to say your reason for existing. Even the smallest things can start to bend you toward conformity.
Joel Cohen • Interview with Josh Tarasoff, Founder of Greenlea Lane Capital
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Everything we point to as “culture”—customs, traditions, fashions, and fads—exists as conventions.