SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociology Of Culture, Cultural Capital
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Culture as understood in: anthropology: the way of life of a people, humanities: high culture- the best that has been thought and known , sociology: convergence of these two extremes. Society culture symbol systems symbols. Culture: basic element go society , expressive aspect of society. Symbols (and their meaning):thing that represent something else,both involve meaning. Cultural objects have meaning beyond their material reality e. g. dogs tattoos. Behaviours take on particular meaning in particular social contacts. Cultural sociology describes and analyses these systems of meaning. What is the relationship between culture and society: functionalist explanation. If meaning is specific to a society then culture and society are closely related. Culture as universal ideals shared by all societies. Modern family 2016: season 7, episode 15 (i don"t know how she does it) Elite class of distinction versus the working class of necessity. Taste for luxury vs. taste for necessity.