SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Relativism, Industrial Revolution, Symbolic Interactionism
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Greek fighting persia is like mississauga fighting canada so how did greek win ? they were outnumbered 2:1. Partly the lack of unity amongst the persians. You"re better equipped because they learned a certain kind of warfare that was specific to their culture. Example of how culture can be freeing, not the most strategic way but it was effective. They consist of tools of things we build, things we produce, we pass our culture on. Socialization is a way in which we pass our culture on. Society is filled with people, culture is the manifestation of those people, how we think, how we act. Main idea of culture is that it"s a tool kit, we develop culture to survive (ideas) we act in certain ways because they encourage our survival. We produce certain items because they enhance our survival. Components of culture languages we develop language to describe things we want to describe: abstraction , symbols.
