SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Metanarrative, Cultural Universal, Linguistic Turn

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Stephen Speake

Document Summary

(a) culture defined the sum total of the social environment in which we are raised and contibue to be socialized throughout of our lives . Foundations of our cultural expectations geography climate language norms values current artifacts" traditions history matters traditions always leave out stuff, we create metanarratives (about who and what we are) and they are always biased, but we still need that. Material culture tells us about non-material culture we have a bunch of tools in our backpack that helps us navigate throughout our life. We don"t think about these tools were are cultured with these rules and we just know how to use these tools. The material is the geography, climate (physical things in lilfe to express culture and architecture of culture. We will focus on non-material culture (language, knowledge claims, symbols, customs, moral sets of beliefs, culture)