Chapter 3

What is culture?

In all kind of human civilization, there is the need to expressed the ideas, from the people as one and as a group.

  The culture or the investigation of it, is about facts, and how they are share in a space. The book study in our class, present a theory about the FIVE DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE, these is about the ways of life, and how the croosover between some facts, they could give us a interpretation about the culture.

• Products: A human socialization, produces results, What is mean? If there are physical resources, as humans and place, those facts, got to show a effect, the use or the waste, are a inevitable result.
• Practices: the importantest of these fact, is to generate a state of "normality", with the used of elements in a social group, as exemple, a group of people whoes lives in a place surrounded by water, would made practices based in that physical fact.
• Perspectives: The knowlege about what are the elements around them, the elements that aren't a material manifestation, but that had been established, in the mental life.
• Communities: About these fact, we have a lot of practical exemples, beacause is they represent and are the product of the previous facts, are also a bridge between the individual and the social group.
• Persons; The source of the culture, is in the persons, his habilities, ideas, and evolution, the way of culture can exist, because need the person the exposed, in a some way, culture in product to the person.

CULTURE AS A ICEBERG

Communities, products, practices and persons, are the most visibles facts of culture, the perspectives aren't as visuals, actually they need more information and analisis, if we want to  understand them better, but if we have the four other facts, the perspective will be out in our investigation.

  We could use the facts that we know, and watch, as a a first look, to our identification of the culture, that we know as "new", but is not about what we watch? Also, What we don't watch?

 Who is there? Who isn't there?

 A good answer is the result from a good question.

 ME KNOWING A NEW CULTURE

 Even I never have been in another country, I Had a culture shock, in my fisrt year of university, I had choose a university, (the product) there was a good environment, the materials elements and the educational ideas, was good, so the product was atractive.

 Practices, I had come from the public high school education, also I was worker class, in that time I never had had a cell phone, so I was surrounded by difents practices, as took one class a day, with a lot of materials, and requirements of time and resources, also the practice of the oneself responsability was shocking.

 Communities: Myself was involved in the community of my carrer, I understood these better to taking class with people from other carrers, our needs usually wasn't the same. So made a estrategical community was necesary.

 Persons: Be involved with people, and hadn't the contance schedule, hadn't the groups, made found the people with the support to found a way to the culture.

 Perspectives: the curriculum, the self ideas, and the ways to improve our time, never was told, or discuss but as more we study more we learn that we will need more.