SOC 103 Lecture 4: Lecture 4

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Culture, foraging, societies + the transformation to early agrarian societies: what is culture, meaning: a way that we survive it is very specific to the economic arrangements in society. The material elements show social, political, and legal arrangements in the society, which includes the values, beliefs, and organization of the society politically. Value is based on the economic values, like religion, customs, practices, etc. If researchers were to dig our past to see what we valued and our economic arrangements, they will find all technology devices, clothing, shoes. The methodology pointed out that culture is out there but in us, (meaning we are in these societies) the methodology gained dominance in the 1960s: definitions, ethnocentrism: Meaning: we all come from minority communities. We use our community as a standard to measure other communities against one"s own culture. Comedians make fun of the dominant culture for example. It means that we have no power: eurocentrism.