SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Kraft Dinner, High Culture
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Culture is the sum of traditions, practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Culture is a part of what defines society. A society is not just thought of in terms of locale but also in terms of culture; a group that shares culture(s). Culture is not just material objects but the general kind of ideas and language that is shared in a particular group. To think of culture sociologically, is to think about it deliberately and how it structures our day-to-day activities. It is to look at how it may link people or divide communities. Three components of culture (1) symbol (2) cooperation: values, norms, folkways, mores, (laws, taboos (3) production, material culture, non-material culture. Symbols: anything that carries a particular meaning, including the components of language, mathematical notations, and signs. Symbols allow us to classify experience and generalize from it.
