SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Incest, Subculture, Ethnocentrism

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High culture: culture consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, etc. Popular culture: mass culture consumed by all classes. Culture: consists of shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems. Symbols: concrete things or abstract terms that represent something else. Tools involve knowledge which is an element of culture. Implicit/unintentional: food fads, such as whether someone drinks starbucks or tim hortons. Cultural factors affect who is seen as funny, and who laughs at whose jokes. Abstraction: ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize concrete, sensory experience. Cooperation: capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Values: ideas that identify desirable states (good, beautiful and true). Production: human capacity to make and use tools. It improves our ability to take what we want from nature.

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