Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consumerism, Promiscuity, Hard Wired
24 May 2017
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High culture: culture consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet) Popular culture: culture consumed by all classes. Culture: consists of the shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems. Symbols: concreate objects or abstract terms that represent something else. Abstraction: the ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize sensory experience. Beliefs: cultural statements that define what community members consider real. Cooperation: the capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Values: ideas that identify desirable states (conditions that are true or good) Production: the human capacity to make and use the tools and technology that improve our ability to take what we want from nature. Material culture: compromises the tools and techniques that enable people to accomplish tasks. Non-material culture: composed of symbols, norms, and other intangible elements.
