Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Culture Shock, Sodality, Food Preservation
18 Jun 2013
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Norms don"t tell us what to do exactly what to do all the time but do give us limits by telling us different behaviors which are acceptable in certain situations. There wide spread agreement in a social group. People should adhere to certain standards of behavior. While norms do constrain us, (restrict us) they generally provide us with useful guidelines on how to act in particular situations. Democracy: people have the right for some kind of say. People of our society shouldn"t necessarily be constrained. Collective understandings: knowledge (often conscious that allows us to interpret one another"s behavior. There"s no necessary connection between the motion itself and the meaning we attach to it (arbitrary relationship) The member so many cultural traditions share ideas about the existence of people and what the relations are to each other. In different societies people have different ideas about how different people are related to each other.
