SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Strongest, Cultural Relativism, Incest
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What to bring: pencil and uoft student card. Having exposure is linked to different things like education: how it is connected to inequality, how it builds community; shared norms and values, set up boundaries between different groups and individuals. Right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Democracy is an important element in our community. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Rules or guidelines for our behaviour: culturally defined, mea(cid:374)t to i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ate to those people li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) that (cid:272)ulture, for (cid:449)hat"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ted (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, norms tend to be connected to those values. Mores- core norms believed to be essential for survival (laws)- norms that are legislated and enacted by government bodies. Incest is also against the law- taboo and law. In different countries, there are different rules around that. Ethnocentrism: tendency to judge cultures by the standards of our own culture, used to describe an attitude of superiority.
