SA 101 Lecture Notes - Relativism, Sociocultural Anthropology, Code-Switching

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Stacy Pigg

Document Summary

In some cultures, when a baby cries and the mother isn"t around, a mom or woman will put that baby to her breast even if she doesn"t have milk: bio cultural: culture is the means through which humans survive as organisms, nature vs. nurture: anthropologists argue that it"s a dumb question > refuse the notion to separate nature out of nurture, culture is learned/culture is shared culture is experienced as common sense (actions and reactions seem to insiders to be obvious, natural and/or necessary, all societies are equally cultural, culture consists of the myriad ways by which people orient themselves (delaney p 9 11 and each chapter, tacit communicated without words and explanations, they are embedded in the things people do in the world and in relation to each other, socialization people are made into the types of people society has places for, culture is a symbolic system.