SOC103H1 Chapter Notes -Symbolic Interactionism, Cultural Universal, Cultural Capital
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Cultural differences underlie many of the misunderstandings that arise in the interactions between people and are behind many of the challenges societies face in reconciling how some groups of humans live versus others. Only the study of history and anthropology makes us aware of how widely cultures have varied over time and space of how very strange other people can seem to be. This variation tells us that people are able to create a huge variety of social relationships and forms of social organization. We are born with very few predispositions to any particular forms of social behaviour or organization (can see this in part by studying animals) Animal behaviour (since it is largely genetic or inborn) does not vary much within species or change within generations. George murdock listed many cultural universals (athletic sports, cooking, dancing, gift giving etc. ) each dealing with a fundamental and general social issue.
