SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentional Community, Nacirema, Ethnocentrism
28 Jan 2017
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Karina da rosa: culture, humans are to culture as fish are to water, we do not notice the things so freely around us, we need culture to survive as fish need water to survive iii. Defining and studying culture: culture defines as an integrated web of meanings and practices that we internalize and learn to come to see as the natural order of things. Importance of culture b. i. ii. iii. iv. Individual action is shaped by the normative constructs established within groups. It is hard to understand social life without addressing the role played by cultural forces: five themes about culture i. Human cultures are infinitely variable in their patterning: nacirema a. Sadistic//masochist idealism: worshiping of the mouth, observation of american culture i. ii. Culture shapes virtually everything that humans think, feel or do: culturally defined factors , time, space, causality and normal behavior b, medicine.
