Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: I Am Canadian, Cultural Universal, Social Reproduction
5 Oct 2016
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One culture or many: postmodern perspective there is no single. Only a multiplicity of diverse cultures: but all societies share certain cultural universals. Is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Ex. survival, reproduction, communication, chain of command, sense of morality/social rules, religion, etc: material culture tells us about nonmaterial culture. Material culture refers to tangible physical items that have been created for use, such as pens, paper, calendars, and knapsacks. Nonmaterial culture refers to intangible intellectual or spiritual ideas: students" knapsacks are filled with pieces of material culture. Each of those pieces of material culture reflects certain ideas or expectations. Culture shapes our understandings through : language, norms, values. Transmission of knowledge: more than 200 mother tongues in canada. The language that a person has grown up speaking from early childhood: sapir-whorf hypothesis: language shapes our reality.
