SOCI 1003 Lecture Notes - Canadian Identity, Relativism, Cultural Turn
28 Jul 2014
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The socially transmitted ideas, practices and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. Result of socially transmitted enabling people to adapt to, and thrive in their. Society is people interacting socially, sharing culture in a geographical area. Human culture exists because we can think abstractly, cooperate and engage in. Abstraction creating symbols allowing us to classify experience and generalize environments production from it. Anything beyond rudimentary level, we learn and transmit knowledge. Production material culture, social control and sanctions. Language system of symbols strung together too communicate. Allows culture to develop, influences how we see the worl. Raw materials: that which existed before out birth/time. Actively produce, interpret culture implies we are at liberty to choose how culture influences us. Some argue multiculturalism cultural relativism, the opposite of ethnocentrism. The idea that all cultures and their practices have equal value. No true canadian identity because of multiculturalism.
