SOC202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hijab, Johann Gottfried Herder, Clifford Geertz
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Fitness carries attraction, discipline, health, but more available to rich than poor. There are many ways of seeing culture in everyday life, such as in national customs, attending social events, personal practices, and variations in symbolic meanings. Cultural ignorance or misunderstanding can lead to highly undesirable outcomes. When talking of culture, sociologists mean: norms, values, beliefs, expressive symbols. Norms: the way people behave in a given society. Beliefs: how people think the universe operates. Expressive symbols: representations, often of norms, values, and beliefs. In the last decades of the twentieth century, sociologists added: practices. Practices: people"s behavior patterns, not necessarily connected to specific values/beliefs. Academic perspectives on culture are usually rooted in either humanities or social science. Neither culture nor society exists out there in the real world: culture designates the expressive aspect of human existence, society designates the relational (and often practical) aspect of human existence.
