SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Protest Song, Consumerism, Incest
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Ethnocentrism- arbitrary nature of culture can lead to those ethnocentrism. In sparta, they do infantism where they kill the baby if no reflexes seen since the he can"t go on to become a militant. Babies are known to be tabola rasa(empty slate) and culture is put on that slate. Branch of sociology looks @ genetic inheritance. We are made of little of nature and most part is nurture. 65% female university students today due to change in culture. Insects are driven by intrinsic (driven by biology to act in certain way) Big cats (as we go up hierarchy) ->there are more products of nurture. So when we find feral children -> nobody taught them how to walk hence they remain unresponsive to any stimulus. Human lang is best ex of symbols. All cultures have values, belief ,norms, some are old traditions other are more modern. We have to develop values that we can generalize to all culture.
