SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paralanguage, Linguistic Determinism, Culture Change
2 Dec 2016
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Culture is generally regarded as a complex collection of values, beliefs, behaviours and material objects shared by a group and passed on from one generation to the next. There is tremendous diversity in human culture (ex what we eat) When studying culture, keep an open mind. Sexual expression also varies between cultures (age, with who and the form it takes. No one can really determine when culture began for 2 primary reasons: Paleoanthropologists and archaeologist have studied various aspects of the evolution of. Second, much of the culture is non material (belief system) human culture to determine when in fact it may have begun: social life. There is evidence that our hominid ancestors lived in groups as far back as 3. 5 million years ago: parental care. Early hominids would have been similar to chimps (small brain). Would have been born in a more advanced developmental less parental care.
