SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Making Money, Consumerism
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The sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. (cid:862)(cid:272)ulture i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es the lifest(cid:455)le, a(cid:374)d the lifest(cid:455)le i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es the way we communicate. Culture: the shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems: enables people to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. Symbols are concrete things or abstract term that represent something else: symbols are shared. Culture is the means humans use to solve the challenges of life. Humans turn to their culture for solutions. At the root of culture is solving the problem of meaning. The power of culture is that makes our sensory experiences meaningful. Once your cultural experience conditions you to interpret concrete experiences a certain way, this becomes your reality. (cid:862)popular (cid:272)ulture (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of the aspe(cid:272)ts of attitudes, (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours, (cid:271)eliefs, (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s, a(cid:374)d tastes that define the people of any society.
