SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Capital, Pierre Bourdieu
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Broad understanding of culture according to: anthropology: the way of life of a people, humanities: high culture- the best that has been thought and known . Elements of culture that is not pop culture (popular culture) Eg. historical art, philosophy, literature, music-classical: sociology of culture/ cultural. Society culture symbol systems symbols. Culture: component of society, basic element of society. Symbols (and their meaning): things that represent something else. Both involve meaning ways to communicate with each other. Language is a symbol system: way of communicating meaning with each other. Explanation: orients us to our social environment. Cultural objects produce a shared meaning that have meaning beyond their material reality. Behaviour"s meaningful too (winking, that"s also laden with meaning) Behaviours take on part meanings in part social contexts. Cultural sociology describes and analyzes these systems of meaning. Examples: dogs, tattoos: rep part of your identity. During holocaust they were tattooed with a number for dehumanization.
