SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Sida Liu

Document Summary

Socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, and ideologies. The human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. Things that carry particular meanings, including the components of language, math notions, and signs. Involves creating a complex social life by establishing norms. Norms are generally accepted ways of doing things. Values or ideas about what is right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Tendency to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of your own. Maintenance of culturally diverse communities, thus strengthening the trend towards cultural diversi cation.