SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 3 And 4 Notes
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Culture: everything we create in establishing relationships with nature and with each other. Society: structure of relationships within which culture is created and shared through patterns of social interaction. Cultural universals: common practices/beliefs by diff. societies (e. g. values, education, religion, sports, cooking, medicine, marriage, sex taboos) Sociobiology: systematic study of how human biology effects behavior (e. g. race- genetic hierarchy) Innovation: new ideas/objects (e. g. da vinci"s early airplane designs: discovery: revealing an aspect of reality (e. g. land discovery, medical research) Invention: combining existing cultural items into something that did not exist before (e. g. tools) The spread of culture (leak), and it relates to the borders for more porous, free flowing culture. (e. g. domination, western culture, tourism) Examples: mental and symbolic representations, language- system of shared symbols, of reality. Normative culture: speech, writing, numbers, gestures, and nonverbal communication. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: the structure and the vocabulary of a language shapes perception and reality shapes thoughts/actions.
