CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Private Good, Ethnomethodology
30 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Culture: sum of the social categories and concepts we recognize in addition to our beliefs, behaviors, and practices, everything but nature , web of meaning that helps organize our lives (i. e red lights, language, social categories) *contemporary societies are a mixture of communal vs private; ex. Racist ideology: societies and belief systems organized around idea of hierarchical racial order, ex; pre civil rights usa, (until civil rights act of 1964 ended legally enforced public segregation; apartheid south africa (until 1994) ******marx and engels: saw ideologies as a way of keeping the elites in power********* Culture: product of face-to-face social interactions & long-term social processes, recognizable in foreign contexts or by denaturalizing own surroundings, material and non-material intertwined, even embedded in the language we speak. Cultural relativism: taking into account differences across cultures without passing judgement or assigning value, weber"s verstehen. In this viewpoint, indigenous practices under colonialism not backwards or.
