SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Gelato, Cultural Relativism, Mcdonaldization
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All the socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Bodily adornment, sports, gift giving, social institutions (family) Study culture from a vantage point that is not too immersed or too far removed. Taking young children for gelato late at night. Norms generally accepted ways of doing things. Keeping your kids up that late and giving them sugar is bad. Cultural relativism all cultural practices have equal value. There s no bad way to raise your kids. Ideal culture set of beliefs we say we adhere to. Travel and migration more people are moving back and forth (transnationalism) Diaspora the migration of a group of people that maintain the identity of their previous nationality even though they live in a different culture now. Work/occupation (ritzer: the mcdonaldization of society shows rationalization, argues that it applies to everything in society not just fast food)