SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Cultural Relativism, Social Fact, Conflict Theories
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Defined as the sum total of all the environments that we are raised in and how we continue to socialize in our lives. Culture can change quickly, builds on previous model. Culture based on ideas that need to be replaced in order to change communicate, to express, and to pass down knowledge. Abstract system of words, meaning, and symbols, main channel to. Rules in behaviour that are conventional/constructive, language to communicate norms. Formal norms that embody values that are necessary to maintain social control. Not always universal, can be non-verbal, represent a concept. Think of culture as a blueprint, durkheim"s social facts , culture is the glue that holds social systems together. Not consensus that holds society together it is power relations, Power holders make core values to create norms and solidify power contradictions to norms. Condition in which social control becomes ineffective due to a loss of shared. Counter cultures (e. g. hippies, kkk, hell"s angels) oppose mainstream, continuum.
