SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: War Measures Act, Blaise Pascal, Incest Taboo
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Used to be controlled be the otoman empire. The army is sunnis, as they used the army to supress the other groups. Someone gets stranded on a island and meets a guy named friday. He makes rules and a society on his own. Once you mythologize it, it become against the law to eat ish on any other day. A bus because you can change the route to some extent. Every society has funerals but the rules for them are diferent. For the closest relaionship, people generally give you three days to mourn in most socieies. In ireland, they were given a one year mourning period. Virtually all social pracices are relaive or social construcions. Larceny, incest, infanicide, parricide --- everything has at some ime been accounted a virtuous acion. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge other cultures by the standards of one"s own culture. Learn through observaions, so living in isolaion impacts their development.
