[SOC202H5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 35 pages long Study Guide!
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Cultural ignorance or misunderstanding can lead to highly undesirable outcomes: lost business, interethnic tension, or an inability to participate in either the comic or the transcendent moments in human experience. Practices: describes people"s behaviour patterns, not necessarily. Culture designates the expressive aspect of human experience, whereas society connected to any particular values or beliefs designates the relational (and often practical) aspect. The same object or behaviour may be analyzed as social (a business card communicates information necessary for economic transactions) or cultural (a business card means something different to a japanese than to an american) Two ways of looking at culture: (cid:498)the best that has been. The term culture refers to the fine and performing arts or to serious literature. Culture in this sense, sometimes called high culture -as opposed to popular culture, folk culture, or mass culture- carries implications of high social status.
