SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Musical Chairs, Norm (Social), Sociality
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Culture is the light in the room. john gittins. [c]ulture is a symbolic system which transforms the physical reality, what is there, into experienced reality. dorothy lee, freedom and culture. Is a physical reality, but we only see them through the perspective of our culture. Cultural system social system personality system. Values and beliefs get put into inst. (ie. go to school to 18 for free), the order of inst in chart is the order throughout history of what was the most important institution. Institutionalization: process of values and beliefs being put into institutions. Socialization/internalization: beliefs into individual, ie. kids in school, go outside its raining, get wet, first kid is told to hang up jacket before he comes in because he"s wet, then that kid tells the next kid. Child learns something and act out those values and pass them on.