SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zombie, Ethnocentrism, Deconstruction
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Culture: provides information regarding society, such as norms, values, ethics and. Soca01- lecture 3 - culture expectations: mostly used to define norms outside of what is considered the. Culture as a concept: concept of culture is broad and encompasses shared symbols & definitions that people create to solve real life problems (pg. What makes culture: culture- composed of symbols whose meanings are shared among a substantial numbers of people (pg. 68: not something only present within a single geographic space or something only shared by people who are part of a job field. These are called subcultures: not something that is shared by a small group of friends i. e. inside jokes, the meaning of the symbol isn"t in the symbol; the meaning resides in what symbol refers to (pg. Origins of culture: made up of 3 building blocks , abstraction, cooperation, production, abstraction, ability to create generate concepts that meaningfully organize concrete and sensory experience (pg. 68)
