SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Multicultural Education, Cultural Relativism, Subculture
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Culture: ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Religion helps people give meaning to life and come to terms with death. High culture: activities consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, art) Culture is socially transmitted and it requires a society to persist. Society: a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture. Brains enabled them to create cultural survival kits of enormous complexity and flexibility. 3 main tools: abstraction: the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking not linked to particular instances. 1 important type of idea: symbols: things that carry particular meanings and allow us to classify experience and generalize from it: cooperation: capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together. This is accomplishing by establishing norms: generally accepted ways of doing things, and values about what"s right/wrong, good/bad.
