How Culture Is Related To Social Location

In today's world we see the world around us in a range of views:

• Our social location - where you are situated in relation to others. (Whether it’s race, religion, education etc.)

• Worldview - are can be shaped by our social, cultural, and personal experiences. Which are influenced by our social location.

• Confirmation bias - the impulse to take new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

• Fundamental attribution error - the tendency to explain someone else on their behaviour based on internal factors (personality or disposition) and to underestimate the influence that external factors (situational influences) have on another person's behaviour.

For this blog post I will be focusing on social locations and how it can effect our culture. But first of all what is "Culture"? Culture basically gives a society its identity from its beliefs, its language, its customs, its laws and its cuisine. It is these that distinguish one group of people from another.

 

But how is culture related to your social location? Well for example, in your social location you have 8 institutions:

• Family

• Education

• Religion

• The Media

• Health

• Government

• Economy

• The Natural World

Each all linking under culture in one form or another. Not everyone has these 8 in their social location but there is a 99% chance that they have seen it in other family or friends social location. Each society has its own culture. For me I live in a very rural area about 90% of it being the natural world. So for me my culture would be based around my family and from them I would get their beliefs and their food culture. Whereas someone living in the city would have a wider culture of beliefs as there would be many more different cultures of people. And would experience more food cultures than I would as they have more accesses to them. Depending on your social location your culture will differ but this does not mean one person is at a greater advantage than the other. Both social locations will have their own benefits just like they will have their disadvantages.