SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Relativism, Consumerism, Ethnocentrism
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Culture: the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. Society: a number of people who interact, usually in a de ned territory, and share a culture. Abstraction: the human capacity to create genre ideas of ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. Symbols: things that carry particular meanings, including the components of language, mathematical notations, and signs; they allow us to classify experiences and generalize from them. Cooperation: the human capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things (three types of norms include folkway, mores, and taboos) Folkway: the least important type of norm, and it invokes the least severe punishment when violated. More: a core norm that most people believe is essential for the survival of their group or society.
