SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maple Syrup, Poutine, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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Cultural Adventures
Research Gone Wrong
Humphries (1960s) - psychologist
o Graduate student who did a study on the T-room trait
It breaks down like you're going to a public park and there's a bathroom there and
then you meet someone else and then you wait for a third person. The two people
engaged in sexual activities and he was the lookout but never engaged in any
activities.
He wrote down the license plate numbers of the participates and then he would find
them and visit them at their house.
The research itself was interesting - the males were in heterosexual relationships and
then engaged in homosexual activities - they didn't know they were subjects.
Zimbardo - social psychologist
o It's the standard prison experiment (tons of movies - it's on netflix). What he did was: took a
bunch of university males and divides them up into being correctional workers and prisoners
because it was authentic - actual police officers would arrest them and admitted to the
prison like any other prisoners (it was supposed to last 10-15 days) but the prisoners started
to actually act like prisoners and the correctional workers actually acted like correctional
workers.
o At the end, it becomes problematic:
The prisoners planned an escape
Zimbardo contacted the actual sheriff and knew there was a plan to escape and
wanted them to go actual jail.
He takes the students with actual blindfolds and then moved them across to other
buildings.
Milgram - social psychologist
o He wanted to study the issue of authority;
o May 1962 - new haven area where males were in university at Yale University;
o It used a shock generator;
o People literally thought people were being hurt;
Culture
Culture consists of the beliefs, values, behaviours, and material objects that define a people's way
of life, passed on from one generation to the next.
Culture has two basic components: nonmaterial culture or the intangible creations of human
society, and material culture, the tangible products of human society.
o For example:
Tangible creations in Canada: a bag of milk, maple syrup (we have a national syrup
fort), Churchill Manitoba (bear jail), hockey/lacrosse, aboriginal art (also to them),
mountie in red suits, poutine (could be also Quebecois), lumberjacks, the beaver;
For example: the university of Ottawa was started by a catholic priest and therefore we're the
only university with a 4 day weekend for Easter.
Only humans depend on culture rather than instincts to ensure the survival of their kind;
o For example: Christmas, Easter that exist for thousands of years.
Culture gives us the ability to actively shape the natural environment for ourselves;
o In Canada, we have houses that have central heating and air conditioning because of the
climate we live in. However, when you go to Mexico, there's no central heating - only
houses built out of concrete.
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