SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Consumerism, Interracial Marriage
3 Sep 2013
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Hdi an index used to rank countries by level of human development . Operationalized as: life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity. Knowledge and education, as measured by adult literacy rate and school enrollment ratios: standard of living, as measured by gdp per capita. Culture refers to the shared values, beliefs, behaviour, and material objects that together form a people"s way of life. Share it with people, form own version, not individualized. Culture includes: how we think, how we act, what we own. In effect, everything we create with our hands and our minds. Culture is both our link to the past and our guide to the future. Traditional, family & friends past onto us, what is right and wrong. To understand culture, we must consider both thoughts and things. Nonmaterial culture is the ideas created by members of society, ideas that range from art to zen.
