SOCA01H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3
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Culture is the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Cultures enable people to adapt to, and thrive in, their environment. High culture if culture consumes mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, etc. ) Popular culture (or mass culture) is culture consumes by all classes. Abstraction is the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not lined to particular instances j ideas. Symbols are things that carry a particular meaning, including the components of language, mathematical notations, and signs. Symbols allows us to classify experience and generalize from it. Cooperation is the capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and what is wrong j norms and values. Norms are generally accepted ways of doing things. Values are ideas about what is right and wrong.
