SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Premarital Sex, Incest Taboo, San People
7 Jan 2017
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How we organize ourselves outside the economic realm. Institutions: think: general ideology, norms, values, beliefs. Oral history: storytelling: act: major institutions, family, religion. Marriage: premarital sex is a norm, female autonomy, mutual consent. Inuit & inupiat: think: general ideology, norms, values, beliefs. Need to work together to survive harsh weather. Gender divisions based on danger of hunting. Men are dominant over women, often abusive: act: major institutions, family, religion. Marriage: premarital sex is the norm, marital fidelity is norm, but spousal exchange creates social ties. Society: a group of people within a certain territory: share common behaviours, beliefs, values, materials, social institutions. Culture: connected to the territory: shared symbols, systems of doing/thinking/feeling, huge variety of human culture, varieties of culture in single territory (canadian diversity, cultural universals: meanings/family, disposal of dead, toilet training, incest taboo. Ethnocentrism: judging other societies/cultures by our own standards: sense of superiority, group loyalty, leads to discrimination, own culture is the norm, everything else is deviant.
