SOC101Y1 Lecture : 2 - Culture
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Ritualized behaviors because ppl think those kinds of behaviors will assist them in some way. The total sum of ideas and practices, and symbol that help us solve everyday problems. ow to get across the river canoe, bridge. Think someone"s looking over us and there"s ritual behaviors that if we follow, we"ll be all right. The weak among us may the the ones who inherit the earth - jesus. Try to solve some human problem, some need that exists. Ritual becomes culture once it"s socially transmitted, becomes widely accepted, is learned, and goes from one generation to the next. original steam engine. Used to open a door, only revived during the industrial revolution when someone realized it could be improved. Became part of culture once it became useful. It"d been forgotten for 1700 years. computer: atanasoff stopped working on it, wwii broke out and military realize it had tremendous potential as a mechanism to calculate ballistic trajectories.
