SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pierre Bourdieu, Intellectual, Cultural Relativism
12 Oct 2018
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Basic concepts: 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: cultural universals - values or modes of behaviours shared by all human cultures. Johnathan tumer: defines it as a conflict caused by "differences in cultural values and beliefs that people place at offs with one another". The use of headscarves by muslim woman in predominantly christian countries, for example, has lead to cultural conflict in france and some other. European countries with large immigrant populations from the middle east or. Cultutre and society: ethnocentrism - involves judging another culture exclusively by the standards of one"s own, cultural relativism - is the belief that all elements of all cultures should be respected as equally valid. Pierre bourdieu (1930-2003) : a sociologist, anthropologists, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual.
