SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Null Hypothesis, Ethnocentrism, Cathedral School

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Socially constructed (made by humans, if something is made naturally, it is not culture) Material (made of atoms)/non-material (mental: song"s, stories, values, religion) Complex (all cultures contain a large number of mat/non-mat factors) Historical/cumulative (all culture comes from the past. Every generation modifies culture, adding and subtracting to it, making it cumulative) Learned/shared (you learn it through personal interaction, it is not in our. There is no such thing as a world culture. Because environments vary around the world, so does culture): descartes biases. Says that common sense comes from three different sources: childhood, when we are young, we have not yet developed the ability to think critically. We are unable to judge, so when someone tells us something, is stays deep into our psyche: authorities, writing in the 17th century,** not someone who has power over you, but someone who knows more than you.