SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consumerism, Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital
1 Mar 2017
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Ethnocentrism is the concept of judging another culture based on the standards of our own. Culture relativism is the belief that all elements of all cultures should be respected as equally valid. Should we respect the practice of cliterectomy (female genital circumsicion, or female. These questions were posed to give the class a point of view on certain cultural barbaric . *plays another brick in the wall" by pink floyd* The meaning of this song to the idea of culture means that culture constrains us. Hard to find a proper sociological definition of culture. Culture consists of the shared symbols and definitions that people create to solve real- life problems. Symbols are concrete objects or abstract terms that represent something else (the term big mac represents a particular type of hamburger supplied by a fast food establishment) symbols fill human experience. Beliefs are cultural statements that define what community members consider real.
