SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alger Hiss, Abbie Hoffman, Rodney King
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Violence in the group is normally taboo (it can exist @ certain levels) Funerals & mourning (you can say its universal, but it varies) Virtually any social practice is relative. (larceny, incest, infanticide, parricide --- everything. Incest is universal, but its not specific. has at some time been accounted a virtuous action. ) Ethnocentrism: the tendency for a person to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of his or her own. Feral children are those not raised by humans. Learn basic values and norms of society. >killed up to 60 million people (recall destoevsky: 19th century thinks worried if god were dead, anything would be permissible) >if you survived & went back to russia, you were killed. Sapir- whorf hypothesis: holds that we experience certain things in our environments and form concepts about those things in our environment and form concepts about those things. We then develop language itself influences how we see the world.
