SOC101Y1 Lecture : Introduction to Society and Culture Discusses culture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, discusses 'freedom', post - modernism, reationalization, consumerism, and marketing to children
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Many people have different kinds of rituals because they believe that by doing certain different things these actions can assist them in what they are doing. Culture emerged from these ideas of ritualized behaviour. These rituals or cultural actions are all created to solve some human problems about life. Culture must be widely shared in order to be considered as real culture. 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. Society exists when people interact and share culture, generally in a geographically delimited areas. Culture becomes culture when it becomes a human need. People tend to take their own culture for granted. Different cultures practices and rituals are odd to us or inferior. When we judge another culture, this is called ethnocentrism, it involves judging another culture exclusively by the standard of one"s own culture.
