ANT100Y1 Lecture 2: ANT100Y1 Lecture 13: Social-Cultural-Linguistic Anthropology: Culture, Difference, Prejudice
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Culture: what we learn from each other vs. what was "programmed" by our genes. Forming procreative relationships: recognizing hierarchy, dealing with violence. Sharing and giving (universal feature), part of human character: education. In some cultures its impolite not to say hi and bye, but in others its rude to do so: cultures are significantly different, but not infinitely different, human cultures have more in common than not. Language: a distinctively human resource and central element of culture, used for, communication and cooperation, but its also for not cooperating, spreading disinformation, etc. We have names for each other, descriptions of each other: and ourselves. Like cultures, languages have more in common than not: most characteristics are the same, what"s not the same is called "surface structures" If you learn all the words, you wouldn"t have to work that hard to understand, grammar isn"t as different: every language has: nouns and verbs.
