SOCA01H3 Chapter 3: Week 5 Readings
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The three tools to culture are abstraction, cooperation, and production. Cooperation - capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas of what is right and wrong this is created by establishing norms (what is accepted / what is considered. Normal") and values (ideas that identify desirable states) There are three types of norms; folkways, mores, and taboos. Taboos are the strongest of the three norms, and when violated causes revulsion in the community and punishment is severe. for example; incest. Culture consists of shared symbols and the definitions people create to solve real life problems and give human life meaning. Culture supports human adaption to the environment by means of abstraction, cooperation, and production. Canada"s far north, arabs have developed many words for different types of camels, and inuits have developed many words for different types of snow.
