SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subculture, Social Fact, Super Bowl
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What is culture: a set of values, beliefs, radiation, language, behaviors, and practice, socially transmitted from generation to generation. Ethnocentrism: the belief that ones own culture or group is superior to others, xenophobia- the unreasonable fear and hatred of foreigners or people from other cultures, ex: natzi, kkk, people who conquered. Two types of cultures: nonmaterial culture (our belief systems, behaviors, and ideologies, material culture (clothes, magazines, technology) Relationship between culture and economic inequality: high culture- associated with the elite class ex: lobster, steak, low culture ex: fast food, cheap. Superbowl: 111. 9 million viewers 2016, durkheim: sports as a religion in the us. Totems -any sort of symbol (like the cross, in sports it might be a mascot, logos etc) reversed spaces (church, sport is stadium) Unity (close who have the same religion, or people who root for the same team) Social electricity (feel different when your in a church, sports when it the people around)
