SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Linguistic Turn, Social Constructionism, Ethnocentrism
15 Mar 2016
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Culture , the sum total of the social environment in which we are caused and continued to be socialized throughout our lives . Foundations of cultural expectations? geography , climate, language, norms, values cultural artifacts and traditions. Material culture tells us about non-material culture. All societies share certain cultural universal: functionalist perspective, conflict perspective (more dominant society/ less dominant society, postmodernist perspective ( there is no single canadian culture) Culture shapes our identity through : language, norms, transmission of knowledge. Sapir whorf hypothesis : language shapes reality. Linguistic turn : idea that language constitutes reality. Social constructionism: idea that our understand of the social and/or physical world develop from within social context. Inability of thinking people to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Means we cannot access a reality beyond our perception. Values of language: functionalist : shared language essential for well being of society. Feminist framework: language confers cultural constructions of gender.
