SOC103H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Antonio Gramsci, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse
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Culture: our uniquely human environment including all the objects, institutions, organizations, ideas and beliefs that make up the social environment of human life. Organizational culture: the way an organization has learned to deal with its environment; it includes norms and values that are subculturally distinct to the organization. Values: socially shared conceptions of what a group or society considers good, right and desirable. Norms: the rules or expectations that serve as common guidelines for behaviour in daily life, telling us what kinds of behaviour are appropriate or inappropriate in specific social situations. Folkways: norms based on popular habits and traditions and ordinary usages and conventions of everyday life. People believe that mores contribute to the general welfare and continuity of the group. Taboos: powerful social beliefs that a particular act, food, place etc is totally repulsive and dangerous. Violation of taboo is supposed to result in immediate punishment.
