SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, International Communication
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ritualistic practices widespread assumed that wearing particular items/doing particular things would bring good luck. culture is that sum total of ideas, symbols, practices that help us solve everyday problems. develop cultural responses to problems (i. e. building a canoe to get across a r iver, r ituals before writing an examination) elements of culture all try to solve some human problem, deal with anxiety, death, etc. ritual becomes culture when it is socially transmitted and becomes widely accepted and spread from one generation to the next, must be widely shared before we can call it culture (fulfills a particular human need) Computer became culture when there was a social need for it (i. e. decoding nazi messages in ww2) Culture: sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects. have trouble understanding the cultures of other people, often startled when we confront the ideas, etc. , of other cultures.
