SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: High Culture, Personal Identity, Ethnocentrism
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1: common sense notions of culture, culture and ethnicity, ex. Culture refers to symbolic and learned aspects of human society. Sum of traditions, practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that create a sense of similarity amongst group of people. Common sense notions of culture in canada: high culture: sum of traditions, practices, languages, symbols, values, ideologies and material objects that are associated with the upper class. Judged in relation to culture of the majority (popular culture) One has a culture (possession: ethnic culture: sum of traditions, practices, languages, symbols, values, ideologies, and material objects that are associated with a cultural minority group. Judged in relation to and often from the perspective of, the ethnic culture of the majority (ethnocentrism) Personal identity can be lost in their ethnicity. 3 biases in common sense notion of culture: culture is relative, culture creates social differences, culture is exclusive.