SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Chapter 3: culture (society"s entire way of life) Argentina: society: organized interaction of people within a nation state or other boundary who share a culture. Global snapshot: social control: attempts by others to regulate peoples thoughts and behavior: Ideal and real culture: ideal culture: social patterns instructed by cultural values and norms, real culture: actual social patterns that approximate cultural expectations. Cultural diversity in canada: canada referred to as cultural mosaic because of all the different cultures that have been immigrating to the country throughout many years, many more immigrants coming from south asian countries. Multiculturalism: multiculturalism: social policy designed to encourage ethnic or cultural heterogeneity, eurocentrism: dominance of european cultural patterns(all should aspire and all should be judged: european way of life, multiculturalism requires a rethinking of core norms and values. Counterculture: counterculture: refers to cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society (ex: hippies, emo differences in values and behavior)