Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Capital
9 Dec 2017
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Four types of norms: folkways norms that specify social preferences. Because they are the least important norms, vio- lating them evokes the least severe punishment. When someone violates a taboo, it causes revulsion in the community and the punishment is severe: laws norms that are codified and forced by states, specifies within the law a form of punishment. A functionalist analysis of culture: culture and ethnocentrism: ethnocentrism judging another culture exclusively by the standards of our own culture. If you refrain from taking your own culture for granted and judging other cultures by the. Impairs sociological analysis standards of your own, you will have taken important first steps toward developing a sociological understanding of culture. Culture as freedom: culture has two faces, 1. Culture provides us with an opportunity to exercise our freedom: we use and elaborate elements of culture in our everyday life to solve practical problems and express our needs, hopes and fears, 2.
