SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Goth Subculture, Cockfight, Class Stratification
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Culture is what we do not notice at home but would spot in a foreign context. Culture includes language (slang words), race, gender, class, and inequality. Is a system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect. Ex: class stratification on planes and sun revolves around earth idea. Cultural relativism taking into account the differences across cultures without passing judgment or assigning value. Ex: looking in the eyes when speaking in us vs. china. Difficulties drawing the line to respect a different culture or interfere. Cultural scripts modes of behavior and understanding that are not universal or natural. Cruelty to animals vs. religious and spiritual meanings. In bali, cockfighting is a very important cultural event. Culture is a system of inherited concepts expressed in symbolic forms by means of which people communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life . A group united by sets of concepts, values, symbols, and shared meaning.
