SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Relativism, High Culture, Incest
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Culture: the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Culture is part of what de nes a society. Three components of culture: abstraction (symbols, cooperation. Values: right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. * provides members of that community with the ideas of what are valued and what are not. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things . Mores: core norms believed to be essential for survival (stronger reactions) Laws: norms that are legislated and enacted by government bodies. Taboos: the strongest norms (outright condemnation, ex. * high culture: consumes mainly by upper classes. * popular culture: consumed by all classes, also called mass culture. Someone who not only likes to eat but they are particular and have lots of knowledge of it. Interested in authentic experiences (not chain restaurants, but local)
