What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
We have identified a convention — a pattern of behavior that a significant number of people repeatedly follow in an observable way.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
A convention of musicto’s culture is the making of playlist - specifically the making of collaborative playlists
A style is a convention guiding the usage and arrangement of certain perceptual attributes such as visual elements, sound, and taste.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
our style is to create 22 track playlists with thubnail, single sentence description, featured artists and a description - typically made at least two people
Cultural capital is the knowledge and proper performance of certain high-status conventions that identify an individual as a member of a high-status group.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
number of collab lists made and published is an indicator of high cultural status within musicto - along with node membership and collection contribution and collective membership
Invention is the proposal of new coordination solutions that go on to form new conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
the arrival of nodes - the arrival of collections are new coordination solutions for community
A trend describes a convention in the process of taking on new adherents.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
we are seeing a trend towards playlists being made by three or more people. We are also projecting a trend towards collections and collectives
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
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
A custom is a long-established, unconscious convention that has been internalized.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
this convention is now a custom - we have a custom of making collaborative playlists
A monoculture is when humans from diverse backgrounds all take on the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
is collaborative playlist creation a monoculture within musicto?