CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Gun Cultures, Folklore, High Culture

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Different institutions help make up society and its functions. Guide citizens or people in how we interact, what expectations there are, etc. Body of institutions and relationships within which people live. Process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development (root latin word: to tend, grow) A particular way of life (knowledge, beliefs, laws, customs) **assumption: really have to know something to understand it in its entirety (high culture) Food choices (enjoying certain foods needs a certain type of person) A certain class attitude as to what is to be considered a certain type of culture. Folk culture: passed down through generations of families and communities. *indigenous culture (first nations peoples)--> could be considered folk culture. Aspects of each group of first nations could determine where it fits within the definition of culture. Based on a western-european definition as to who fits where as what (not the only way of thinking about culture) Goth culture of the modern generation, vegetarian/veganism, religious lifestyles.