SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Hijab
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Dauntingly abstract concept to describe around societ, think of it as a. Broad understanding of culture according to: anthropology: the way of life of a people. Understands culture in the broadest sense: humanities: high culture- the best that has been thought and known . Museum quality art, philosophy, literature, classical music: sociology: convergence of these two extremes. Trying to understand the relationship between society and culture. Society culture symbol systems symbols. Culture: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Symbols (and their meaning): things that represent something else. Hugging is an expression of affection or love. Cultural objects have meaning beyond their material reality eg. dogs, tattoos. Behaviour take on particular meanings in particular social contexts. Cultural sociology describes and analyses these systems of meaning. If meaning is specific to a society, the culture and society are closely related. Cultures as universal ideals shared by all societies. It is autonomous from society: functionalist explanation.
