SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumerism, Subculture, Postmodern Architecture

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Greeks fought persians: greeks won: 25 thousand vs 11 thousand, 7 thousand persians died, 200 greek died, they knew close to nothing of the other, persians planned to attack city, greeks attacked when they were leaving. Culture: a collection of things that help us respond to circumstances: the sum of practices languages symbols beliefs values ideologies and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. Passed on from one generation to the next: transmitted by socialization. Is learned: taken for granted, culture shock. Is symbolic: culture varies across time or place. Culture as a constraint: you can make mistakes in different cultures, rules in different culture, taking another cultural position, religion change vs family, relationships, obligations/expectations, confines individuality, you might limit yourself in expression, external pressure to conform. Internal and external: rationalization, efficient means to a goal, mcdonalization, problem of standardized, control, alienation.