SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visible Minority, Cultural Diversity, Postmodernism
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Developing theories, constructing language, providing meaning to tools. How do we give something meaning/purpose through societal process: cooperation: capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong. Establishes norms (generally accepted ways of doing things) and values (ideas that identify desirable states) How to behave, what is aesthetically pleasing, what considered acceptable/desirable life choices: production: human capacity to make and use tools; improves our ability to take what we want from nature. Material culture: compromises the tools/techniques to extract and create things from nature that enable people to get tasks accomplished. Non-material culture: composed of symbols, norms, and other intangible elements to produce information, knowledge, and ideas. Theories are developed about how a certain drug might cure a disease. Experiments conducted whether works as expected. are test the drug to.
