SOC202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sociology Of Culture, Ideal Type, Edward Burnett Tylor
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National customs i. e. the way of handling business cards. Personal practices i. e. going to the gym musculature of. Symbolic meanings i. e. what dogs or veils represent cultural cultural ideal difference. Culture: norms: the way people behave in a given society, values: what people hold dear, beliefs: how people think the universe operates, expressive symbols: representations, practices: people"s behaviour patterns. Neither culture nor society exists out there in the real world. Methods expressing our lives as social beings. The best that has been though and known . Common usage of culture: fine and performing arts or to serious literature. 19th century: culture civilization against marx"s capitalism. Civilization: technological advances of the industrial revolution and the accompanying social upheavals. Teach people how to live and conveying moral ideas. Humanizing agent that moderates the more destructive impacts of modernization. Some cultures are better than others perfection. Culture opposes the prevailing norms of the social order/civilization. Harmony : culture and society rarely achieved.
