SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Bourgeoisie, Frankfurt School, Orthodox Marxism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: John Irwin

Document Summary

Culture: powerful social force that influence events: in bringing people together and pushing them farther apart. Shared ideas/preference = comfort/familiarity makes usenjoy spending time, same ideals = more connection. Culture influence and key how we relate others, all these preferences/ideas/notions/ feel connected to other people. Differ in fundamental beliefs= culture plays a dividing role/division/disconnection. What is culture: different interpretations of the word culture. Refers to refined aesthetics productions that cultured people enjoy. Patterns/practice of a subgroup of people ( nerd/geeks/goth_ Culture : sum total of human creation, everything that is a product of a human mind, no matter how small or larger, how concrete or abstract, how individual or widely shared, constitutes an element of culture. First distinction: is between culture and natural world, as it exist apart from human interaction. Culture: do not refer to physical reality: human influenced/created environment, product of human mind. All our thoughts are conditioned and shape by social environment into which we are socialized.