SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Subculture

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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 made up of ideas, behaviors, and material possessions. How we think, act, what we own. Culture is shared, learned, taken for granted, symbolic, varies across time and place. Abstraction, symbols, language (sapir-whorf), production, values, norms. Abstraction: capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances: ex. We experience and form concepts about the environment. Language is filter affecting how we perceive the world. Production: capacity to make and use tools to improve ability to take from nature: material culture: tools and techniques that enable people to accomplish tasks, non-material culture: symbols, norms, other non-tangible elements of culture. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Folkway: least important, evoke least punishment (etiquette)

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