SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Survival Kit, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnocentrism
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Friday, september 18, 2015. The sum practices, language, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real- life problems. Passed on from one generation to the next. Society made up of people, culture is made up of ideas, behaviours, and material possessions. How we think, how we act, what we own. Components of culture - think of culture as a survival kit. Language (sapir- whorf) - filters the environment ie. key. Core norms that most believe are essential for survival in their group. Stealing - if we stole all the time = conflict = trouble = mores/laws against that. We have a culture of advancing diverse rights. Danger of ethnocentrism you judge yourself to be superior to another. Fashion it to suit diverse and changing needs. If you were a functionalist - you"d say you"re born into culture. Symbolist would say that"s true, but we also change it.
