Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Equal Protection Clause, Social Reproduction, Cultural Universal
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You can study how a certain cultures sees the world though their language and the word the use to describe things around them. Feminist framework: language confers cultural construction of gender. What we expect of people (social rules) Cutting in line, using phone in a movie theatre. No one really does anything to stop it. Parking in no parking zones (get a ticket) Taboos: wrong in and of of themselves. A norm that is attached to a value is usually written down to have a punishment attached to it (law) if norm is violated. Values: collectively shared ideas about right and wrong. E. g. , equality, fairness, individuality: presumptive link to social policies, mission statements, and programs. Canadian values: equality and fairness in a democratic society, consultation and dialogue, accommodation and tolerance, support for diversity, compassion and generosity, attachment of canada"s natural beauty, canada"s world image: freedom, peace and nonviolent change.