SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Five Hindrances, Linguistic Relativity
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Culture: all shared products of a society: not innate, provides identity(age, sex, religion, race, social class) Internalized through : belief systems into which one is born. 2. identi cation with one"s groups: we want to belong and will conform. Material elements of culture -> desks, buildings, cars. Norms: rules: shape and direct our behavior, become aware of them when broken (breaching, other"s responses indicates seriousness of the infraction. Ex: eye contact when talking; move to the right of someone you"re walking past. Norms are contextual: dependent on time and place. Values: general notions/feelings about what"s good/bad, right/wrong: sanctions -/+ -> pressure us to stay in line . Ex: american ag just being cloth, but has so much meaning: charged emotionally, there"s been an accident . Friday, september 16, 2016: the linguistic relativity hypothesis- sapir and whorf, words predispose us to precieve the word in certain ways. *culture is a lens/ lter= organizes what we see.
