SOC 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociobiology, Cultural Capital, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
Document Summary
Culture is the total way of life shared by members of a community. It includes not only language, values, and symbolic meanings, but also technology and material objects. (non)material) Culture capital- symbolic boundary that keeps social classes apart, attitudes and knowledge that chatracterize upper social classes. Symbolic interactionist - interested in how people interpret and us what they see in the media explores the meanings people derive from culture and cultural products, and how those meanings result from social interaction. Culture is problem solving, relative, social product, (ethnocentrism-tendency to judge other cultures according to norms of our own culture). Biological perspective- sociobiology- study of biological basis of human behavior- evolution and natural selection. Carriers of culture: language (embodiment of culture, symbol, framework. Sapir-whorf hypothesis argues language affect how its speakers see reality), values, norms (customs, morals, laws). Social control-sanctions are rewards for conformity or punishments for nonconformity.
