SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Media, Premarital Sex, Consumerism
2 Nov 2017
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It is a learned way of life that gets passed on to further generations: culture defined, our capacity for culture. Folkways: mores, right/wrong moral there is a stronger punishment for breaking them. Less punishment for the violation going against the norm doesn"t mean it is the normal in society, it means going against something about the culture in that area (premarital sex, people don"t follow this norm") Premarital sex is a sin: belief, because we draw our evidence for religious beliefs from belief. Should not talk about premarital sex: norm, folkway, proscriptive, chasity/sexual purity value, rules of abstinence or permissiveness, norm, mores, consumer culture: an introduction. Some sources of hyper-consumerism: mass media, corporations/marketers, government. School systems: can we get a definitive answer about whether some values are right or wrong , role of theory. Social and cultural critique: the commercialization of childhood.
