SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnocentrism, Linguistic Universal, Xenocentrism
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Culture and society culture system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs, and technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society. Culture and ideas language and symbols: abstract and complex, sapir-whorf hypothesis. Purple and gold = lsu in louisiana. Purple and gold = husky"s hockey team in seattle. Minivan in america = not wealthy person. Minivan in africa = wealthy person: language allows us to convey the meaning between others. We wouldn"t be able to communicate with each other. Written language not universal some societies that don"t have written language: how do they transmit from one, long song or sayings that are passed generation to another? down. Early bird gets the worm wake up and work and get results beliefs knowledge norms: norm formal and informal rules of conduct and social expectations for behavior, prescriptive v. proscriptive. Prescriptive norm: what you are supposed to do.
