SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mcdonaldization, Survival Kit, High Culture
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3. taken for granted: symbolic, varies across time and place - not static as a natural way of doing -> different from culture to culture) (culture shock: what we think of. Cultural relativism judging other cultures by the standards of our own culture hierarchy, prejudice, discrimination ex. racism, inferiority and justification for slavery. Symbolic interactionism o o o produce and interpret culture fashion it to suit diverse and changing needs not a passive absorption of culture. Counterculture o subculture: set of distinctive values, norms, practices within a larger culture o o counterculture: subversive subculture that opposes dominant values and seeks to replace them consumerism as a control mechanism subversion and mainstream rebel to entrepreneur. Culture as problem solving: culture: the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems ex. Origins and components of culture (human cultural survival kit)
