SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Toronto Sun, For Marx, Social Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

Shared system of values, beliefs, behaviours, customs, etc. Negotiate the way around the world, and our world. Past down, and transmitted generationally (learning, tradition, history, etc. ) Ray williams: way of life, intellectual work/ that is able to produce meaning. Without being socialized, we are unable to have conversation upon opposing views. Socialization- it is a process where we learn our society"s cultural aspects. Culture: learned, symbols- vocals, gestures, signs, shared system- that is a collective, based on a participation of the whole, a, b, & c= d= the legitimate whole sale version of culture. 5 types of culture: folk- socially identifiable group, experience the world in a traditional way. Communicating through face to face: high culture- valuable. It began in the enlightenment, and western philosophy. As the world becomes more civilized, we are seen with an increase with the particular culture"s value. (example(s) music, literature, and art : mass culture- denotes quantity over quality.