SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural Capital, Ethnocentrism, Human Behaviour
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Everyday speech culture often refers to high culture or popular culture: high culture culture consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, popular culture (or mass culture) culture consumed by all classes (movies, pop music) The human capacity for given rise to these. Theories are developed about how a certain drug might cure a disease. Experiments are conducted to test whether the drug works as expected. Treatments are developed on the basis of the experimental results. Abstraction the ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize sensory experience: developing theories, constructing language, providing meaning to tools. Chapter 3 the capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong: established norms and values. Production the human capacity to make and use the tools and technology that improve our ability to take what we want from nature. 2. involves making and using tools and technology.
