SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Slut, Ethnocentrism
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Culture: the sum of practices, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems: high culture: culture consumed mainly by upper classes (ex. opera, ballet) Popular culture (mass culture): culture consumed by all classes. Superstitions are different depending on the individual, but other aspects of culture such as technology and religion are socially transmitted. Society: a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture. The origins and components of culture: humans were able to survive because of abstraction, cooperation, and production, abstraction: creating symbols, abstraction: the human capacity to create symbols or general ideas that carry meaning. Symbol: anything that carries meaning (ex. language, math symbols: enables humans to learn and transmit info to others (baby learns we sit on chairs) Taboo: strongest type of norm causes revulsion in the community and punishment is severe (incest)
