SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Endangerment, Ethnic Group, Speed Bump
1 Apr 2016
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The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generaion to the next. Personal disorientaion that comes from encountering an unfamiliar way of life. No cultural trait is inherently natural to humanity. The capacity to create and learn cultural traits is natural. All cultures are built on 5 major components: Anything that meaningfully represents something else to others. Words, numbers, pictures, colours, gestures, facial expressions, etc. Winking can show interest, an understanding, a joke, etc. Being an outsider gives an inability to recognize a cultures symbols, making you feel lost in society. An insider would not have trouble understanding their society and their symbols. Keystone to human culture, major means of cultural transmission. Shapes how we think, perceive, and experience the world. Know the world only in the terms of the language we speak. Collecive ideas about what is wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable.
