ECON 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Charlton Ogburn, Dominant Ideology, Norm (Social)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 208
• Professor: El- Attar Mayssun

Document Summary

Culture: is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs knowledge, material objects, and behaviour. Sharing cultures helps define the group or society to which we belong. Sociologists distinguish between formal norms those written down and informal norms- those that are generally understood: sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. In class notes: the totality of learned, socially, transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, ad behaviour. Innovation: process of introducing a new idea or object to culture. Diffusion and technology: diffusion: something that has been invented and gets diffused ( spread around the world, a process a items spread through society to society. Transmits culture: might have negative outcomes: 2 forms of culture, material culture: physical or technological aspects of our daily lives (william f. Ogburn: food, house, factories and raw material, non material culture: ways of using material objects, food, cooking and estig customs, perception of nature john locke / english colonizers vis a vis native.