SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Culture
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Culture characteristics (language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects) that are passed from one generation to the next. Nonmaterial culture ways of thinking (beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world)and doing (common patterns of behaviour, including language, gestures, and other forms of interaction: no particular custom is right . Symbolic culture another term for nonmaterial culture. Its central components is the symbols that people use to communicate. Symbol something to which people attach meaning and which they then use to communicate (gestures, language, values, norms, sanction, folkways, and mores) Gesture: gestures the use of one"s body to communicate with others, giving messages without words (different in various cultures, used as communication, but also may lead to misunderstandings. Meaning given to sound has no universal meaning: language allows human experiences to be cumulative. We pass ideas, knowledge and even attitudes on to the next generation.
