SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC101
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Culture- is a sum of social transmitted ideas. Hero"s aeolopile ~100 c. e opening a door to the palace, forgotten until the 18th century. This really become a part of our culture, until it was widely needed/used/belief and practice in our culture. The atanasoff-berry digital computer, circa 1939-was used during the war, only when wide spread need was present. Sociological understanding of a culture, we tend to be quite blind and unaware of your own culture. Ethnocentrism-judging other country exclusively by the standards of your own, coming to conclusion that other cultures are irrational. Cultural relativism-belief that all cultures are all equal and respectful. Cliterectomy-lessens sexual arouse in women, 1) pain, loss of sexual pleasure, increase to the susceptibility, to hiv, hipotitis b. In general it i important to avoid ethnocentrism, as responsible citizens of the world, we have to reject certain values that transient in all cultures. Song: education is thought control-until they become another break in the wall.
