SOC101Y1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
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Culture is the sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to overcome real-life problems. Culture gives us guidelines for how to act. It is something that becomes shared only when we need. It was forgotten in the past but it was r-established many years later. It only becomes culture only when it"s a wide spread belief. It wasn"t popular once it was created, until it was popular during the world war because it was used as a utility for war purposes. Sociological understand of a culture is a difficult task because its hard to understand your own culture. We tend to be blind of our culture. Ethnocentrism involves judging another culture exclusively by the standards of one"s own. Other"s might thing other cultures are rational. Cultural relativism is the belief that all elements of all cultures should be respected as equally valid. Cliterectomy: all procedures of removing female genitalia whether for cultural reasons.
