SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnocentrism, Linguistic Determinism
1 Mar 2016
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Film: the codes of gender: identity and performance in pop culture. Culture: a complex collection of values, beliefs, behaviours and material objects shared by a group and passed on from one generation to the next. The intangible and abstract components of a society, including values and norms. The tangible artifacts and physical objects found in a given society. Includes symbols, language, values, norms (folkways and mores, not lectured on) Culture it is learned it is shared it is transmitted it is cumulative it is human (cid:143) (cid:143) (cid:143) Symbols: something that stands for or represents something else (i. e. the canadian flag). Language: shared symbol system of rules and meanings that govern the production and interpretation of speech and communication. People create realities of meaning through language and other symbolic systems. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: argues that language influences how we perceive the world.
