SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gross National Income, Human Development Index, Dominant Culture
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Human development index is a measure used to compare countries on how well they"re doing in human development. Before you can rank countries like this, you have to define and operationalize that. Right now, hdi is operationalized as life expectancy at birth (population health and longevity), education index (mean years of schooling), and standard of living (gross national income per capita) To operationalize something you start out with a fuzzy concept, go further and further into detail, decide what you will count, measure it. Culture = the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next. Material culture = physical creations we make, use, and share. Non-material culture = abstract human creations such as language, political systems, etc. We learn about culture through interaction, observation, and imitation. Culture is shared, earned, taken for granted, and symbolic (ex. maple leaf) Components of culture are symbols, language, values, and norms.
