Concepts within General Culture
Basic Concepts within General Culture
Each society, over time, has formed a cultural structure by internalizing basic concepts such as sports, art, science, religion, language, eating, drinking, and producing, which create different lifestyles. These cultural structures have revealed the differences in the concept of general culture among societies. General culture can be listed as tools for acquiring it; personal sensations like listening, watching, reading, writing, traveling, seeing, discussing, examining, and researching constitute informational culture. Although it contains information, general culture is not just factual information. Information can exist on its own without general culture. Just as general culture can be acquired through information, information can also be acquired through general culture. The sequence of basic concepts within general culture is; High culture, Subculture, Enculturation, Acculturation, Cultural diffusion, Cultural lag, Culture shock, Cultural imperialism, Cultural assimilation, Cultural decay. These concepts are called basic concepts and are explained in detail.
High Culture
This is the general culture that is valid in all parts of a country's society, is accepted, and is embraced.
Subculture; It is known as the culture of communities that have the religious, linguistic, ethnic, and customary structures of the cultural structure accepted by the country's society.
Enculturation; It is the culture of a country's society transmitting its cultural structure to the next generation.
Acculturation; It is the interaction of people from different countries living in the same country, and their exchange of cultures.
Cultural Diffusion; It is the spread of material or spiritual cultural elements originating from one country's culture to other countries' cultures.
Cultural Lag; The disharmony and crudeness that arise when a country's society cannot adapt the changes in its material cultural elements to its spiritual cultural elements is called cultural lag.
Culture Shock; It is the situation where a person belonging to a country's culture cannot adapt to the culture of another country when they move there.
Cultural Imperialism; It is one country imposing its language, religion, and cultural characteristics on the citizens of another country and exploiting its resources.
Cultural Assimilation; It is the process, either by the state or through normal processes, of transforming individuals with minority cultural structures into the generally accepted dominant culture of the same country's society.
Cultural Decay; It is the deterioration that occurs when a country's culture shows a tendency towards another country's culture, moving away from its own culture.
