SOC361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Starch, The Emotions
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Birds learned how to steal cream from people through socialization because the birds taught other birds. There was an experiment: some birds were taught how to open doors that had treats behind them that birds liked. They wanted to see if the birds that knew, would teach the birds that didn"t know how to open the doors: sure enough, the other birds learned, which is an example of cultural transition. 3 meanings of culture: high culture the culture of high socioeconomic individuals, pop culture the personalities, magazines, current trends are all popular culture, social culture. 4 components of culture: ideologies things we don"t see. Beliefs parts of culture that we carry in our head and beliefs about how things work ex. We don"t see ideologies: forms things we see. This is the symbols, cultural behaviours, that have a cultural significance and represent association with that culture.
