SOC100H5 Chapter 3: CHAPTER 3 CULTURE TERMS
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Culture: the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies object that people create to deal with the real-life problems. High culture: culture consumed mainly by upper classes. Society: a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory and share a culture. Abstraction: the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. Symbol: anything that carries a particular meaning, including the components of language mathematical notation and signs. Symbols allow us to classify experience and generalize from it. Cooperation: the human capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together. Values: ideas about what is right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Folkway: the least important type of norm-a norm that evokes the least severe punishment when violated. More: a core norm that most people believe is essential for the survival of their group or their society.
