SOC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Capitalism, Equal Opportunity
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All cultures have at least a spoken language because culture requires the communication of meaning. Language is the basis for culture because it frees people to move beyond their immediate experience. Language contributes to 4 practical components of culture: shared past, shared future, shared perspectives and understanding, complex and coordinated behaviors. Language is the primary means by which culture is passed from one generation to another. Language allows us to demonstrate our value to society. The single best predictor of success is verbal acuity. The sapir whorf hypothesis: we know the world only in terms of our own language, no 2 languages are sufficiently similar so as to express precisely the same ideas. *standards which members of a culture distinguish b/w good and bad, beautiful and ugly, value and careless. Values are guiding principles about what ought to be. they are not researching what we do.
