SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Marvin Harris
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Smallest things show cultural influence: the people squeezed out of system stop believing in solidarity. Culture has norms and rules that shape your behavior, the rules come from us. Some cultural values will favor the interest of a class ruling an economic system. "the overworked american" - more labor saving devices, but we put in more hours than most people through out the world/history. Marvin harris " cows, pigs, wars, and witches" - cultural riddles. Wolfgang shibblebush - how coffee is the preferred morning drink, the peasantry would have a beer soup.