SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Opiate, Solidarity, Social Capital
22 Apr 2018
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Culture: material culture refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people. Metro passes and bus tokens are part of material culture, as are automobiles, stores, and the physical structures where people worship: nonmaterial culture, in contrast, consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Relativism: cultural relativism is the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one"s own culture (p. 59, what does it mean to say that truth is relative? . Symbols & language p. 65: the sapir-whorf hypothesis, which has also been called linguistic relativity, states that language shapes though, it is a structural explanation of our thought processes. 66-67: sociologists use the term high culture to describe the pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exist in the highest-class segments of a society, people often associate high culture with intellectualism, political power, and prestige.
