SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Class Conflict, Incest
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Values: cultures include ideas about what is right and wrong, good and bad, pretty and ugly, etc: beauty: cultures have very different ideals of beauty, tattoos, scarring, hair length, body weight, skin color. We are aware of this overall shared notion of beauty standards in ca: gender: cultures differ in the importance they place on males and females. How your society should work based on certain values that influence your beliefs. (policy, gender relations, creation) We all have particular beliefs about who you are and how the world works. When these beliefs are wide-spread, considered culture. Religion: lays out system of beliefs about the origins of the world, life after death, etc. Science: influential effects on many people"s beliefs about how the world works. Ideologies: marxists belief class conflict is the cause of hardship and will lead to revolution. Community: beliefs in origins, unity, threats, etc: norms. The visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured .
