SOCI 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jingoism, Incest, Cultural Relativism
24 Oct 2016
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Culture the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. High culture culture consumed mainly in upper classes: what sociologists call opera, ballet, art, and similar activities. Popular culture (mass culture) culture consumed by all classes. Culture becomes shared when it is socially transmitted. Society a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture. Culture is sum of the socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that enable people to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. Human brains enabled them to create cultural survival kits of complexity and flexibility. These cultural survival kits contained three main tools: abstraction, cooperation, and production. Human culture exists only because we can think abstractly. Abstraction the human capacity to create symbols or general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. Symbols anything that carries a particular meaning.
