SOCA01H3 Lecture 3: Sociology Lecture #3 (Your compass for a new world)
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Provides meaning to our social world in terms of: norms, values, ethics, expectations. Used to define norms outside of what is considered. It is broad and involves shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems: everyone in society takes part in sharing and developing culture. Culture is composed of symbols whose meanings are shared among a substantial number of people. Made up of 3 building blocks": abstraction, cooperation, production. Establishes norms and values that are socially shared and accepted (what is considered to be right and wrong, how to behave) The ways that tools are created to extract and create things from nature. There are myriad alternatives in how we perceive the world and the types of deductions that can be made based on the cultural. We then develop language to express our concepts since language influences how we see the world.
