SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Incest, Consumerism, Holding Hands
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Politicians like to talk a lot about threats to culture. Stephen harper talked about both honour killings and islamic fundamentalism as a threat to canadian culture. Charter of values sought to protect quebecois culture. When pressed on what they mean by canadian and quebecois culture, politicians commonly do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat to sa(cid:455) There is no straightforward definition of what culture is. This makes it is difficult concept to study. We need understand it and then approach it from a systematic perspective in order to study it properly. Toda(cid:455)"s le(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e (cid:449)ill (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396) just (cid:449)hat (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e is. In so doing, it will present one of the most basic concepts in sociology. From a functionalist point of view, culture is something very real that we need to protect because it binds all the organs of society together. Culture is a central concept in sociology but is also used more popularly. A sociological definition: (cid:862) ha(cid:396)ed (cid:271)eliefs, (cid:448)alues, a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es(cid:863)
