SOC 1100 Lecture 5: Soc 5

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Lisa Kowalchuk

Document Summary

The emphasis is on shared meanings, symbols, conceptions, and knowledge: culture is about symbols and meanings. Recall what a symbol is: (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)rete (cid:894)i. e. ta(cid:374)gi(cid:271)le) things or abstract terms that represent so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g else(cid:863) A so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s tool (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e read or i(cid:374)terpreted for i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) that society lives (or lived: e. g. were men buried with women, e. g. with pottery: The purpose of the pottery (for d cor or for use) What kind of technology they had when making the pottery. How pottery travelled (if you find the same style pottery in 2 different countries speaks to the trade that occurred: two more examples: How people sit (in iran people sit on the floor, in canada people sit on couches) What you wear to different events (e. g. women vs. men: culture (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of (cid:862)the shared s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ols a(cid:374)d their defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374)s that people (cid:272)reate to solve everyday problems(cid:863) (cid:894)te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ook defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374)(cid:895) Example given is the sacredness of cows in some cultures because of economic reasons.