Culture Thesis

[Athenasby Regalado]

Iwould like to start off with the definition of Culture, which is an organized system of learned behavior and thought patterns. Always make manifest by a group making that group distinctive from other groups. It is non-instinctive but rests on a biological base of: binocular, stereoscopic, color, vision/ habitual, upright bipedal locomotion/ generalized forelimb with opposable thumb and the symbolic capacity of (750-950cc). It is transmitted through language is cumulative and embracing both artifacts and attitudes is human kinds chief adaptive mechanism.

Culture is an organized system because it ties many parts together that are interconnected to all function as one. These are traits which are the simplest part, to complexes which are all the traits combined, then you build on that to get patterns which are many complexes, and finally institutions which are needed to answer problems that are crucial to basic human needs. If any of those characteristics are taken out of the system then it would not work properly, so they are all of necessity. What you get from this is cultural integration, which can be high or low. In the case of the Yanomamo the level of integration is very high which makes their culture or society very simple because they do not have options on how they do things.

Five major ways that humans learn their culture are through child raising practices or how they think the child should be raised in the particular environment, Imitation or role modeling when a child pretends to be someone the would like to be if they were grown up, learning from friends in peer group play, oral traditions which may be from stories past on, and rights, rituals and ceremonies for example weddings.

The third part of culture is manifest by a group or the shared behaviors of a group. Culture is a shared social behavior by everyone in a specific place making a society. All the people in a society create and maintain a culture, and then the society preserves or keeps the culture alive. An example using the Yanomamo would be how they all dress the same wearing pretty much nothing and eat the same types of food like plantains. This is then carried on generation after generation through their process of enculturation.

The fifth part of the definition of culture would be how it rests on a biological base. This means that before humans could start to develop different cultures they had to first have specific biological characteristics that came through evolution. These consist of binocular stereoscopic color vision which was the ability to see in color while focusing both eyes to make one image and being able to judge the distance of the image instantly. Also humans needed habitual upright bipedal locomotion which gave us the ability to see better with elevated eyesight and also gave us the ability to carry things while in motion since the hands were not needed to walk. One more thing is a generalized forelimb with an opposable thumb which in turn allowed humans to be able to do many tasks and then have the opposable thumb to lock either a power or precision grip on to things. The last biological base needed was the symbolic capacity which was a cranial capacity of seven hundred and fifty to nine hundred and fifty cubic centimeters. This gave the ability to develop symbols which we know is very important in a culture and is a way to distinguish differences between cultures.

Next would be how culture is transmitted through language. This is done by the creation of symbols which allow people to develop complex thoughts that can be exchanged to other people. A human has the ability to pass on knowledge through their specific language and this allows for a greater transfer of information over a smaller period of time. This is how they will pass on customs and beliefs too. Also the ability for a group to learn something new by having only one person from the group having a specific experience is gained from the ability to transmit culture through language, unlike with an animal how they must come into a predicament to learn the outcome.

The second to last part of culture is about culture embracing both artifacts and attitudes. From the text book culture embraces artifacts because they are adaptive functions and must be included. These artifacts are the result of cultural thought processes, which come from the environment triggering the need to adapt to be able to survive and reproduce.

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I am looking for some help out there, anything and everything in relation will help. I am currently in the process of conducting my thesis for my graduate degree, and I have chosen to explore graffiti culture in a search to create a means of refuge through architecture. I'm looking for any and all sources (books, articles, journals, etc.) dealing with architecture and graffiti or graffiti culture. Whatever the topic may be, it will help.

Let me get this straight: you're asking architects for information about people who willfully trash architecture, crap up the visual environment with irritating noise, and think it's somehow cool and interesting? No thank you. Try worldstarhiphop.com. It might be more your speed.

For example the cultural references in graffiti are very pop culture, stereotypical, sometimes dumb, and postmodern ironic. The most interesting research on graffiti that I've seen has been sociological. The architectural relationships are usually metaphorical.

Who said anything about "beautiful" architecture? Even crap architecture looks worse with graffiti. And if you've ever been to New York, Paris, Rome, etc then it usually doesn't take long to be find something.

There have been proposals, talks, and implementations for "graffiti zones" before for buildings. I think I read they tend to attract more graffiti artists as opposed to the taggers that scare Mr. Wharton.

This is acceptable in architecture:

This is heresy:

It seems more architects are afraid of graffiti, not because it is a scratch on their pristine masterpiece, but because it is a direct hit at their ego telling them how shitty our environment really is and that their contribution was better painted by someone else than what they could have done on their own.

The painted walls of San Bartolo are, in my humble opinion, history's most bad ass murals ( ). There are many other painted walls that were, are, and will continue to be enjoyed by millions of people (all the while millions have, are, and will continue to remain ignorant to the existence of these and other countless painted walls).

Try to look past the anger that someone painted your property or project, challenging your authority. Perhaps the new paintjob isn't what's making that old rickety fence look bad. Even if it's a shiny new storefront - someone felt unwelcome enough to want to 'hit it' - but you can't try to please everyone, and neither can the guy with the spray can! I'm guessing the overall quality of the urban environment and vandalism statistics would both improve should the builders of today seek to commission the best contemporary painters to adorn their 'products', rather than outlawing an activity that has been a central aspect of the multiple expressions of culture our species has collectively invented since crawling into a cave.

Le Corbusier gave so much shit about this, he painted his own garage doors:

Come check out Melbourne. Graffiti is actively commissioned by the city and forms an integral part of the laneway aesthetic. I agree w/ metal that there are more interesting counter-cultural movements to pursue at this point, as graffiti is already alive and well accepted down here.

A second, more contemporary thought is about a growing trend of guerilla artists creating non-permanent "digital graffiti" via digital projections and using the facades of building as a surface for projecting political statements and art installations.

To the above, if it was illegal, definitely. I think graffiti is about making a disruptive statement in a counter-cultural manner (really like that term). Billboards happen through a "proper" social process, so I think they're more about an established form of visual communication, like Randh points out.

But In many ways graffiti culture has infiltrated our everyday lives. Graffiti has played a role in things like motion graphics and communications design. Walk into any big name advertising agency and you will meet people who have a street culture background. The creative class has basically digested spraypaint graffiti.

I'm willing to bet that Frac's examples are gang graffiti, or the shenanigans of a few underclass middle schoolers. Bear in mind though, that good things still emerge from the bottom. One day those troublemakers might be doing graphics for Fox news billboards, or study psychiatry in an attempt to understand their childhood behavior (any stats on this?)

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