SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rape Culture, Broken Windows Theory, Ethnocentrism
29 Jul 2015
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The totality of shared language, ideas, knowledge, material objects practices and beliefs which humans create and which shape our lived environment. Complex, but it does have definitive characteristics. Norms can be understood as relatively precise rules which specify which behavior and actions are permitted or prohibited. Norms describe the expectations that develop from groups values. There are two types of norms, formal and informal. Values are usually share by members of the group or population these are general beliefs that tell us what is valuable and desirable, and what is also not valuable and undesirable. Values are the standards by which people define good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Something that is part of the university culture is drinking alcohol binge drinking in. Language has 3 important characteristics it allows human experience to be cumulative, you can pass things from one generation to the next, it allows the next generation to build on the next generation.
