SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes -Flag Of Canada, Technological Change, Cultural Capital
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Culture is an amazingly powerful social force that influences events as diverse as whom we marry and whether we go to war. While a conflict of material interests usually sets the stage for war, culture can play a large role in determining whether war is waged. Culture also plays a role in various social cleavages between many social groups within the same society. Languages, symbols, discourses, texts, knowledge, values, attitudes, beliefs, norms, world views, folkways, art, music, ideas, and ideologies are all culture", as are the practices through which these things are often performed or put into concrete form. Structural aspects of society are the enduing patterns of social relations and social institutions through which society is organized and through which individual and collective actions are carried out. (ex. political system, economic system) A high degree of occupational segregation by gender is not culture but structural.
