REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Ethnocentrism, Social Environment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Dr. Aubin

Document Summary

We can begin to understand why groups matter without considering culture. Why people as a collective do the things they do. In north america if we place something on to a chair, desk or a table it would symbolize that the spot is taken or in use. Culture is a system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and concrete materials such as buildings, tools, and sacred items. Values something we hold as an importance. Concrete materials the physical elements of our culture i. e. ) tools we use. Dominant culture through its political and economic power, is able to impose its values, language and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour on a given society. White, english speaking people of christian and european descent. Minority cultures cultures that are not part of dominant cultures. Subcultures do not oppose dominant culture, but function in different ways. Counterculture groups that reject elements of dominant culture.