SOSC 1040 Study Guide - Ethnocide, Freethought, Culture Industry
12 Nov 2014
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Understanding the complexities and contradictions of human culture. Culture is so vastly dynamic and influential on society; it has everything to do with how we interact and what we value. Contrary to the population definition, culture has more aspects than just ethnicity and status. Culture originates from the circulation of common knowledge and skills passed down from generation to generation. One of the biggest factors in shaping culture are values, which are moral viewpoints shared by communities. These viewpoints are not taken lightly; rather people take pride in them. Culture is so influential on an individual that social philosophers view it as a force of instinct or our second nature". Biologically, males and females have their differences, but their roles in life weren"t biological, rather socially constructed. Different cultures give identities to an individual"s cultural traits of individuals, shaping our societies. The concept of culture in its earliest form was the cultivation and preservation.
