SOC101Y1 Lecture : 2nd lecture
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many athletes all have some practice or rituals for good luck, and they aren"t. most social practices are done for the purpose of helping solve some kind of a social problem. culture is the sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to overcome real-life problems. Culture gives us guidelines for how to act. a society exists when people interact and share culture, generally in a geographically delimited area. social practice must be transmitted from people to people, and generation to generation. It must be widely accepted and having fulfilled a social need before it is considered culture. ethnocentrism involves judging another culture exclusively by the standards of one"s own. cultural relativism is the belief that all elements of all cultures should be respected as equally valid. culture contradicts itself because it frees us and also restricts us in a way.