SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consumerism, Subculture, Cultural Relativism
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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, vittorio colao: culture influences the lifestyle, and the lifestyle influences the way we communicate. Symbols: concrete things/abstract terms that represent something else. Culture as problem solving: 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. Nocialzing: being out in public and spending the whole time on mobile phone. High culture: to be superior of others (opera, ballet, etc. : more ability to appreciate things, more powerful, more have influence, high class people consumption. Society: a number of people who interact (territory, culture) Murder) draw the line between right and wrong: taboos: strong social revulsion (ex. Incest, cannibalism) just wrong: production: the human ability to create tools and technique to produce anything (material culture) treatments.