Question

compare and contrast the cultural social political and economic and symbols and practices​

Answer 1

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Symbolism leads to the “Layers of Meaning” concept. Culture is the meaning that is shared to provide guiding principles for individual meaning.

Language is the most often used form of symbolism. There are 6,912 known living languages, and the diversity is caused by isolation. Most languages have a different “symbol” for each letter, word, or phrase. The use of symbols is adaptive, that means that humans can learn to associate new symbols to a concept or new concepts with a symbol.

It is important for anthropologists to consider their own cultural background when looking at symbolism in a different culture. This is because many symbols, though similar in appearance, can mean drastically different things. These symbols can best be understood or interpreted though the eyes of the culture that they pertain to, otherwise they may loose their unique significance. One example of a misinterpreted cultural symbol is the “whirl log” symbol commonly used in Southwestern Native American blanket weaving. This symbol is almost identical to the Nazi Swastika, and therefore brings a negative response from many Americans. Although the Native American symbol has nothing to do with Nazi or Germanic symbolism, this design is rarely used on blankets today because of the symbolic misinterpretation.

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Answer 2

Significance of cultural, social, political, and economic symbols and practices.

• Symbol: It is an object used to recognize any sort of relationship, matter, or object in a cultural way.
• Symbols give us a clear idea of a few situations and make it easy for us to understand the situation.

1. Cultural Symbol:

• It is a type of symbol which deals with cultural identities, cultural values like tradition, language, or profession.
• It signifies the value of different types of culture and gives knowledge about their uses and advantages.

2. Social Symbol:

• It is a type of symbol which gives us an idea about social practices like one's social position and social status.
• These social practices help in the growth of our culture from a different place to another, by which our cultural practices are socially spread worldwide.

3. Political Symbol:

• These symbols are used for representing different political parties in a unique way with a unique explanation.
• This helps in distinguishing between political parties based on their symbolic notation by which elections are also held peacefully.

4. Economic Symbol:

• This symbol is used in representing our country's economics like cash, tax, GST, etc.
• Gives a clear picture of our economic status and improvements.