SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Culture Shock, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Flag Of Canada
9 Feb 2018
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Reminder winter 2017 notes, so notes now maybe have been modified. Chapter overview (a) what is culture? (b) how culture shapes our understandings (c) theorizing culture (a) Culture is most often categorized as the sum total of the social environment in which we. What is culture? are raised and continue to be socialized throughout our lives. Culture simply put is the beliefs and behaviours that social group shares. Difference between the society and culture is that society describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture. Cultural universals are patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies. Socialization lifelong process in which we learn about ourselves, and also the society that we live in. Social structure the framework of social elements and social patterns. Statuses = recognized social positions that exists over time. Ascribed is a position in a social group that one is born into or have no control over.
