SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zande People, High Culture, Ethnocentrism
19 Sep 2018
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Sosa 1003 lecture 3 september 12, 2018. Culture - is the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Each tool was a uniquely human talent, and each gave rise to a different element of culture. Abstraction is the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are linked to particular instances. Symbols are things that carry particular meanings, including the components of language, mathematical notations, and signs. Symbols allow us to classify experience and generalize from it. Languages and mathematical notations are sets of symbols. The ability to abstract enables humans to learn and transmit knowledge in a way no other animal can. Cooperation is the human capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together. Norms are generally accepted ways of doing things.
