SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Eurocentrism, Cultural Universal, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Although we are all the same biological creature, we have developed different ideas about what is pleasant and repulsive, polite and rude Culture: the ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a peoples way of life. Nonmaterial culture: the ideas created by members of a society, ideas that range from art to the canadian constitution. Material culture: the physical things created by members of a society culture shock: personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life. No way of life is natural to humanity even though most people around the world view their own behaviour in that way. Every other animal (zebra) behaves the sam way around the world, because animal behaviour is guided by instinct, or biological programming, over which the species has no controlled. The importance of primates is that they have the largest brain relative to body size of all living creatures.