SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nationstates, Scientific Revolution, Making Money
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Culture the sums of practices, language, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that. Consumed mainly by upper classes people create to deal with real-life problems. Passed on from one generation to the next. Helps people to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. Popular culture (mass culture) consumed by all classes. Society a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture. 100,000 years ago, humans lived in harsh conditions having poor physical endowments, being slow runners and weaker fighters than most of the other animals, yet managed to survive and dominate the nature. Domination was possible because humans were the smartest creatures around and their brains allowed them to create survival kits of enormous complexity and flexibility. Survival kits contained three main tools each tool was a uniquely human talent: abstraction the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances.
