COLLAB 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personality Development, George Herbert Mead, Pierre Bourdieu
2 Apr 2015
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Characteristics of culture: culture is constructed, culture is shared, culture structures our perception of reality, culture provides us with rules for acting, culture is universal and functional. Symbol: something that meaningfully stands for another thing. Symbols are: the basis of culture, used to communicate, gestures b) language, values and norms, subcultures and countercultures. Language: a system of symbols for the purpose of communicating. Language allows us: experience to be cumulative, a shared past, shared perspectives and understanding, behaviour to be directed. Sapir-whorf hypothesis language determines our worldview/ reality. Values, norms and sanctions: values are standards that help define the good, bad and ugly. Positive sanction: rewards for following norms: immaterial & material. Negative sanction: disapproval for not following norms: immaterial and material. Norms (mores, folkways and taboos: mores: a formalized norm (rule) with material negative sanction, folkways: an informal norm with a immaterial negative sanction, taboo: the most serious type of norm.
