SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eurocentrism, Edward Said, William Graham Sumner

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

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Culture: defining culture, elements of culture, interpreting culture (monday"s tutorial) Culture is a system involving behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and material such as buildings tools and sacred items. There is not total agreement as to what culture is. One of the points of contestation is authenticity. Views of authenticity is widely and often differ between groups and individuals. For jean-paul sartre, jazz music was a representation of freedom. This may have been in part because jazz was associated with african american culture and was thus in opposition to. Western culture generally, which sartre considered hopelessly inauthentic. Theodor adorno considered the predominant cultural norms to be inauthentic. Not only because they were seen as forced on people, but also because, in themselves, they required people to behave inauthentically towards their own desires, obscuring their true self. The culture that through its political and economic power is able to impose its values language and .