SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orthodox Marxism, Dominant Ideology, Epigenetics
23 Oct 2018
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September 19th - chapter 3: culture: shapes how people relate to themselves and others, brings people together - but how it pulls people apart. In time and place - it does not stay the same - varies over time - develops new characteristics: national cultures are pervasive, can be differentiated on basis of - profession, age, gender, ethnicity, class. Durkheim and culture (cultural functionalism): functionalists ask what is the role of culture and how does it keep together, functionalist says - without culture, chaos would happen. Max weber - symbolic interactionist perspectives: pay attention to what others and cultures do to fabricate meanings, bottom up approach. Production of culture perspective: more emphasis on agency then how culture is structured. Structure: soul food junkies: structures contain cultures, cultures responds to structures, political system is an example of structure. Inequalities can be questioned by how certain cultural incidents impact them.
