SOC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnocentrism

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

Document Summary

Culture: shapes your intellectual understanding of the world: what is, what is possible, what it means. Values- deeply held standards for what is good, loved, important, wrong etc Beliefs- agreed upon facts, explanations, and expectations. Language- set of meaningful symbols, including words and gestures. Materials, arts, and technology- the stuff we make and use. Ethnocentrism- own cultural experience into seeing the culture that we"re accustomed to as good, right and natural. Helps class status-more money you have the more you can do. Helps find mateone of your same status. Fashion industry wants to make money, if they make us feel like crap about ourselves we are more likely to buy the product, they make us seem like we need it. We understand and perceive the world through language(language shapes what and. This is nurture: what is learned and becomes you. Humans aren"t born into knowing what exactly to do: we are kind of helpless, born only partially created.