SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Benjamin Lee Whorf
29 Oct 2017
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Wednesday, february 3, 2016 soc1100 reading - chapter 3 culture. High culture - a culture consumed mainly by upper class. Popular culture (mass culture) - culture consumed by all classes. Culture - consists of the shared symbols and their de nitions that people create to solve real life problems. Symbols - concrete objects or abstract terms that represent something else. Abstraction - the ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize sensory experience. Beliefs - cultural statements that de ne what community members consider real. Cooperation - capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong. Norms - generally accepted ways of doing things. Values - ideas that identify desirable states (conditions that are true, good, or beautiful) Production - human capacity to make and use the tools and technology that improve our ability to take what we want from nature.
