SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nitassinan, Premarital Sex, Class Conflict
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Waterways frozen for most of the year they travel in small groups: when ice melted they would travel by canoe to the coat of lake to fish, trade, meet friends and families. Difficult to control food supply: supplied mainly by males. Engaged in dangerous work high stress work. Men and women co-operate in caribou drives. Males live separate from females for parts of the year. Cultural universals: common activities in all societies but how they are done is different, no universal form of. Cultural relativity: standards of one culture not used to judge another, understand a culture on its own terms, adaptive response. Ethnocentrism: tendency to judge other societies by our own standards, superiority, group loyalties, leads to discrimination against those different from ourselves. Shared by group within a larger population. Values may or may not be compatible with larger society. Statement about what is, was or will be: normative. Emotionally charged sets of beliefs and values.
