SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Promiscuity, Cultural Survival, High Culture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Gives concrete experience (taken in through senses) meanings. Culture: the shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve problems. Symbol: concrete objects/abstract terms that represent other things. Abstraction: ability to make general concepts that meaningfully organize sense exper. (ex language: beliefs: statements defining what community considers real (ex theories) Belief: statements defining what community members consider real. Cooperation: capacity to make a complex social life by establishing expected behaviours and right vs wrong (norms and values: norms: expected ways of doing things (ex; experiments to test results, values: identify desirable states. Production: capacity to make/use tools help us take what we want from nature: material culture: tools (ex drugs/treatments, non material culture: symbols, norms, values, etc, social organization: arrangement of social interaction. Folkways: norms that specify social preferences; least important (ex; man walking shirtless on street) Mores: specify social requirements; believed to be essential for survival of society (ex; man walking without pants on street)