SOCA01H3 Lecture : Compass reading notes - Chapter 3
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H igh culture consumed mainly by upper class. Abstraction capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instance. i. e. symbols: things that carry particular meanings ability to abstract enables humans to learn and transmit knowledge unique human. Cooperation capacity to create a complex social life establishing norms: generally accepted ways of doing things enormous variety of social arrangements and institutions (healthcare system, political parties) demonstrate advance human capacity to cooperate and follow norms. Production (cid:190) making and using tools and techniques that improve our ability to take what we want from nature www. notesolution. com (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) Ethnocentrism : judging another culture exclusively by the standards of our own. Symbolic integrationist sees culture as an independant variable. People actively produce and interpret culture (cid:190) we are allowed to choose how culture influences us.
