SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Postmodern Culture, Flight Attendant, Call Centre
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Percept: the smallest bit of concrete experience (meaningless) Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound in language (about 40 in english) When we are creating meaning, we are creating culture. People would just hear phonemes due to the fact that the sounds aren"t put together into words to create meaning. Probably what babies hear due to the fact that they don"t understand the words and the meanings. A culture is a system of shared meaning that people create to solve real-life problems. Whorfianism is a principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers" world view or cognition, and thus people"s perceptions are relative to their spoken language. Emotion management involves people obeying feelings rules . We have conventional expectations about what we should feel, how much we should feel, how long we should feel it, and with whom we should share our feelings.
