SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Relativism, Mcdonaldization, Symbolic Interactionism
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The sum practices, language, symbols, tools, behaviours, beliefs, values, ideologies, material objects; things that we create. These are passed on from generation to generation. Culture is shared, learned, taken for granted, symbolic, and varies across time and place. This is why culture shock happens; we take our own position for granted. Culture is a variable; cultures themselves vary across time and space. Cultures were developed out of a need of survival. We develop a language to help us communicate what we experience. Then, that language shapes how we interpret the world. This language acts as a filter; how we interpret the physical world. In some languages, a key is masculine, and in some languages, it is feminine. If you asked different people how to describe a key, some would describe it as jagged/ridged, or smooth/shiny/curvy. As we understand languages, we filter the world through them.
