SOCI 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seymour Martin Lipset, Xenophobia, Norm (Social)
12 Apr 2016
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Culture: sum total of symbols, values, norms, and material objects that a society creates: material culture: physical items that a society uses or makes, non- material culture: non-physical products of society. Cultural transmission: passing of culture from one generaion to the next. Cultural universals: elements that are common to all human cultures worldwide. Language: system of spoken and/or writen symbols used to convey meaning and to communicate: sapir-whorf hypothesis: speakers of a diferent language think diferently because of diferences in languages. Symbols: things/items that represent, suggest, or stand for something else. Gestures: are symbols we make using our bodies. Values: shared general beliefs about what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, or right or wrong: ideal culture: values and behaviours to which a society aspires, real culture: society"s actual value and behaviours. Seymour lipset: cultural tradiions are shaped by historical circumstance: americans: rebellious, individualisic, egalitarian, canadians: respecful of authority, eliist, collecivist.
