SOC 1100 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Notes.docx

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Culture includes our thoughts, action and possessions, becoming our link to the past and our guide to the future. In order to understand culture you must consider both thoughts and things. Two types of culture include nonmaterial culture and material culture. Culture shock is experienced when one travels to a place of different culture and feels uneasy and out of place. No way of life is natural to humanity. Animals around the world behave the same because their behaviour is guided by instinct or biological programming. Only humans rely on culture rather than on instinct to create a way of life and to ensure survival (harris, 1987) Primates have the largest brains relative to body size of all living creatures. The stone age achievements of primates mark the point at which our ancestors set off on a distinct evolutionary course, making culture their primary strategy for survival.

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