SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Subculture, Speed Bump, Cultural Relativism
27 Oct 2016
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The 5 major components of culture: symbols language. Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable. Provide the criteria for evaluating people, objects and events. Established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct. May be formal or informal, consist of folkways, mores, taboos, laws. Values: ideals or beliefs about behaviour but do not state how to behave. Norms: tell you how to behave (ex: a canadian value is to be polite. (owever, holding the door and saying you"re sorry are norms) The tangible things created by members of society; the artifacts, tools, and technology we develop and use. We live in a world of things that people have made. Almost everything we do involves relations to the things we have made. Almost all of our interactions with other people are mediated through objects of one kind or another. Physical and tangible human creations: tools, artifacts and technologies.
