1500 words Cultural Awareness Essay on North Korea, sociology homework help

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APA FORMAT 1500 word Cultural Awareness Essay on North Korea. Must provide IN-TEXT CITATIONS AND REFERENCES.

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1. Define the meaning of culture.

2. Explain at least 5 major characteristics that define a culture

3. Describe the common culture characteristics of North Korea

4. Overview of North Korea physical geography and military conflict history, significant past military conflicts and their impacts on the society, weather analysis, civil considerations, and a detailed description of the people (Society, Social structure, culture, language, power and authority, and interests).

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Cultural Awareness Essay on North Korea
Meaning of culture
Culture is defined as a social norm or behavior found in human society. It is considered as the
central concept in anthropology and it encompass the range of various phenomena that are
usually transmitted through by means of social learning and assimilation in human society.
Various aspects of the human behavior including language and social practices (marriages,
kinship), technologies such as cooking, tool usage, shelter and clothing, expressive forms such as
music art, ritual, dance and religion are considered to be cultural universals that are collectively
found in our human society. It should be noted that concepts of material culture cover various
expressions of culture such as architecture technology and art (Kroeber, 2015). On the other
hand, the immaterial cultural aspects including social organization (social institutions and
practices of political organizations), philosophy, mythology, literature (both oral and written) and
science are comprised of cultural intangible heritages of human society.
It should be noted that in humanities, a sense of culture is attributable to the individual’s degree
to which he or she cultivate a given level of sophistication in sciences, art, manners or education.
In addition, the level of sophistication of culture usually distinguishes human civilization from
lesser complex human societies (Kroeber, 2015). Various cultural hierarchical perspectives are
found in class-based differences between folk culture, popular culture, low culture of lower
classes and high culture of social elites, differentiated by stratified accessibility to cultural
capital. In common usage, culture can be used to describe symbolic markers, which are used by
ethnic groups as a way of distinguishing themselves from each other such as clothing, body
medication, jewelry. On the other hand, mass culture can be used to refer to mass mediated and

mass-produced forms of consumer culture that arise during the 20th century various schools of
philosophy such as critical theory and Marxism argued t...


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