SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gook, Caucasian Race, Squaw

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Culture: knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. The common factors make people of the same culture understandable to each other. Instincts: unlearned, biologically determined behavior pattern common to all members of a species, occurs whenever certain environmental conditions exist. Reflexe: unlearned, biologically determined involuntary response to a psychical stimulus (ex: sneezing) Drives: unlearned, biologically determined impulses common to all members of a species that satisfy needs such as sleep, food, water, sex. Physical or tangible creations (protection from environment) technology. Abstract or intangible human creations of society. Culture would not exist without symbols because there would be no shared meanings among people. Ex: emoticons , swastika, language (humans and animals) Sapir/whorf hypothesis language shapes speakers view of reality if people are able to think only through language, language must precede it.