SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Pop-Rap, Postmodern Culture, Chuck D
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Tools and techniques are called material culture because they are tangible. Folkway: least important social norm, evoike least punishent. It is a social preference: mores: social requirement. People believe it to be essential for survival for their group or society taboo: among strongest norm. When someone violates a taboo, it causes revulsion in community, punishment is severve. In india the untouchables have the right to eat beef of dead cows, form the workforce of indias large leather craft industry: uptill 1960, culture was seen as a refelection of society. Symbolic interactionaists see culture as an indepedent variable, one that influences society. Culture diversity in 1988 according to the multicultural act, canada had no offical culture, and all cultures were equal critics of multicultural education: multicultural education hurts students because you have less time for core subjects such. Camels are important in nomadic arabs, many types of words for camel in arabic. Language influences the way we see the world.
