SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mcdonaldization, Copts, Consumerism
14 Mar 2017
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Sociologists de ne culture broadly as all the socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems . Albas and albas (1989) study encompasses both ideal. Certain type of stress of taking a test/exam. I. e bodily adornment, sports, gift giving, social institutions (family) Cultural relativism: all cultural practices have equal value. A gap exists between what we say and what we do (ideology and action) Transnationalism people moving back and forth between their 2 countries, e. x they immigrated to canada but keep strong ties to home country as well. Diaspora maintaining their ethnic identity even though they live in a new country e. x. Work/occupations (ritzer: the mcdonaldization of society) very in uenced by max. Weber, he believed a modern is characterized by rationalization, he means that there are large bureaucracy (uni) or government bureaucracy. Saying that all these bureaucracy has all the same standardized procedures.
