SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, False Consciousness, Ethnocentrism
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Way we make sense of and give meaning to things. Stuart hall: said culture is shared conceptual maps of meanings things are passed on from one generation to next, founded. Culture helps us make sense of the world. Non-material culture: symbols we use to give meaning to/represent our world in a particular way (language, values, gestures) Gestures: culture and national differences (ex. bowing in japan) Allows us to construct, share, and externalize meanings. Language determines our consciousness through language we learn a certain way of thinking and perceiving. Ideology shared cultural knowledge/sets of beliefs which serve interests of particular groups. Interested in how people were convinced to believe these. Discourse framework of share cultural understandings. Expressed through language, images, and social practices. Privileges certain ways of understanding and marginalizes others. Ex. going to university vs. going into a trade (plumbing) Values: shared standards of good and bad. Norms: accepted rules of behaviour that develop out of values.
