SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anomie, Commodification, Opiate
22 Nov 2017
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Sociology day 8: culture: culture: the symbolic order through which individuals communicate and organize their collective life. Will take on different forms throughout different times and places. Reflects the nature of the society: symbolic communication: varies according to the nature of the organization of social relations of production and reproduction (the social organization). ), embedded in objects (pottery, tools, technology, etc. Our world is rooted in symbolic interaction: symbolic communication is the basis of culture. Culture revolves around the symbols that we create and share with one another. All human groups have culture, and cultural activities: division between the worlds of art" and everything else" . The world of art is very secular, very high-class, requires some kind of formal knowledge of the arts. The world of everything else requires very little background knowledge: most symbolic creations are generated to create a revenue (music/movie industries, etc. directly tied into capitalist production.
