SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci
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* interpret culture as a symbolic environment in which humans live. * connect micro and ,acro aspects of culture in several ways. * consider the significance of cultural differences in our society and around the world. * our social environment is symbolic" as well as material, in the sense that every human group produces meanings that remain in a society"s memory. > culture" concretised in a society"s literature, arts and science is the group"s memory. * sociologists and anthropologists focus on culture to get a sense of the whole society,whether they are looking at small scale societies or large and complex ones. * george murdock listed many cultural universals, including the following general attributes > central role culture plays in trying people to their society through its connections with both social structure and private experience. * functionalists view culture as having an integrative role in society.
