SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cattle In Religion And Mythology, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Wayne Gretzky

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

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Culture all ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. Examples: wayne gretzky performed rituals such as never getting his hair cut on the road, because last time he did his team lost. University student who would arrange her breakfast in a specific order on her plate as a ritual for preparing for exams. Her practice helped her deal with real life problems such as her anxiety: tools help for solving real life problem. Religion helps people give meaning to life and comes to term with death. Tools and religion are elements of culture because they help people solve real life problems. *tools and religion are elements of culture because they help people solve problems. High culture culture consumed mainly by the upper classes ex. Popular or mass culture- culture consumed by all classes.