Learner's Journey Log: Culture and Community

Illustrated Glossary

1. Culture - It is the way to represent person identity with different beliefs, rules and norms.

2. Symbols - It is a sign which helps in giving some teaching in the abstracted form.

3. Values - These are the teachings which are important for a particular culture.

4. Norms - These are rules that should be performed in a particular culture.

5. Gestures - These are signs shown by moving human organs in some manner to perform some act or a way of communication.

6. Language - It is the main way of communication used b every culture and it is unique to every culture or religion and it is the main way old people teaches their next generations easily.

7. Ethics - It helps in deciding what is right or wrong.

8. Visual Organisers - The process of arranging our research in a tabular manner so it looks neat and clean to read.

9. Material Components - All the physical components used to perform a ritual or belief is called a material component.

10. Non-Material Components - All the believes and the reasons why something is done, which we think or feel in mind are called the non-material components.

11. 5W1H - It the tool used to make the visual organiser with the questions asking what, why, when, where, who/whom and to get the deep information about that topic.

12. Demographics - Study of the population based on gender, education, age, religion, etc.

13. Text - It categories based on what its made of, how its made and it's formal elements and contents.

14. Context - It categories based on for whom that object is made or the time and space for they are used and if the function is changed.

15. Subtext - It categories based on the meaning and the emotional messages that the object carries.

16. Deciphering - Easily understandable and readable.

17. Indigenous Community - The community that is old and original and didn't change with time and still follows their original beliefs.

based on

18. Concept of Beauty - It shows the beauty of the community like what they do or wear to show their beauty.

19. Cohort - To group the people of the same community.

20. Insights - To write something with a deep understanding.

Material And Non-material components of the Social Media

Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies which are used to collect and spread the information and to improve the general awareness of the people. This culture is a widespread culture and now almost every person is connected to this community. There are many platforms of this social media like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, etc. To use this social media we always need a phone or a computer and this can be called as the material components of this community. The information we write or the pictures we post in the social media and other things we do in social media also come under the material components. I always found social media is the fastest medium to spread information and it can make someone famous in seconds or can give sudden falls in everything. We must use social media carefully and must show that is true otherwise many controversies arise. People mostly post about their lifestyle and many are social media influencers. So according to me all these rules and belives I wrote above must come under non-material components of this community. This belives can only convey through visuals or some written information and some medium to spread them so this is how these material components are related to these non-material components.