Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Male Privilege, Consumerism
3 Apr 2016
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Socially transmited ideas, pracices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. The personal space exercise: factors of inluence include gender, where you grew up, ethnicity, size. Anything that carries a paricular meaning recognized by people who share a culture. Can"t have a thought if there is no word for it. Holds that we experience important things in our environment and form concepts about those things (path 1 to 2) Then, we develop language to express out concepts (path 2 to 3) Finally, language itself inluences how we see the world (path 3 to 1) Beliefs: speciic statements that people hold to be true or false. Values: abstract ideas or generally accepted standards of behaviour. Norms: deining principles by which a society comes to govern itself, difer from values they are more precise rules, prescripive (should, proscripive (should not) Not essenial to funcion society (e. g. brushing teeth: mores.
