SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Canadian Literature, Microsociology, Puritans
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Culture lag: osborn"s concept describing how technology often outpaces society"s ability to adjust to it. A complex collection of values, beliefs, behaviours, and material objects shared by a group and passed on from one generation to the next. The following findings: social life, parental care, pair-bonding, subsistence, environmental adaption, thought, language, art, and religion. From early beginnings human interactions were being defined by culture. Culture is learned (no one is born with culture, rather as we grow up we are constantly immersed in the cultural traditions of our parents, siblings, and peers) Culture is shared (culture develops as people interact and share experiences and meanings with each other) Culture is transmitted (cultural beliefs and traditions must be passed from generation to generation if they are to survive) Culture is cumulative (as members of each generation refine and modify their cultural beliefs to meet their changing needs, they build on the cultural foundation of their ancestors)
