SOCIOL 3NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociology Of Culture, Class Consciousness, Eyelid
23 Oct 2020
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Introduction: culture and cultural sociology lyn spillman (pages 1-5) Ways in which meaning -making is important in social cohesion, domination, and resistance. Term has overlapping meanings that are sometimes contradictory often considered ambiguous. Shared mental frameworks which are the tools of meaning -making. Culture as a feature of entire groups and societies. Culture can be seen as something connects us to other people in our groups. Certain worldview, habits, codes, and assumptions the way we eat meals. When we encounter a new situation our a new group and find that pour usual ways of seeing and acting in the world can no longer be taken for granted. Draws contrast between the cultures or different peoples. Idea of culture first seen in nineteenth-century europe. Way of life of a people os thought to be embedded in, and expressed bu, its culture. Cultures are thought too be evident in anything from tools to religion.
