MODULE 3

• anthropologist john h. bodley defined culture as, "what people think, make, and do"
• 3P model of culture

  • perspectives
  • practices
  • products
• perspectives describes "what members of a culture think, feel, and value." this includes ideas about what is important in life and, beliefs about how younger people should relate to older members of society
• perspectives define what members of a particular culture consider as appropriate and inappropriate behavior
• practices include the traditions and typical behaviors in a culture; they can be formal or informal
• products are the tangible objects people think of when they think about another culture