Amish Culture Summary

In this essay, I will explain what the Amish culture is. Amish culture is bordering on the times of the 1800’s and the industrial revolution. They are a civilized, culted people because they have their own ways of life and doing things. The American of the Amish as they are called, has seen the Amish culture to have many examples of different lifestyle areas. I will also use some pieces from the unit 2 video and article to demonstrate these different lifestyle areas. I will close with a brief summary of the Amish, their culture and how the different lifestyle areas were discussed, and their strides toward modernization.

In 1980, Spradley defined Culture as “learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience” (Spradley, 1980, p.3). Which is just saying people imprinting information, and new customs on others. The Amish who mostly live a few hours from New York in a town called Lancaster County, they are a non-conformist type of people. Where they don’t use motorized vehicles, they use horse –drawn buggies or use electricity, they use oil and diesel powered products, and normally have about 8 children(FMG,2005). Some of the Amish’s different

They use horse and buggies, only diesel and oil to do everything, as well as sending children to school up until the 8th grade(FMB,2005). They are more of a micro culture as described in Spradley’s article in 1980. They are a subgroup in a larger group but have their own customs and traditions that only they live by (Spradley, 1980, p.4). But slowly the Amish culture is starting to conform to a few of the American or Non-Amish ways of life. They are listening to music other than hymns and conversing with American Non-Amish people in public for things other than work, or distribution. They are making small strides towards making their Amish lives a little bit brighter, and