SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology Notes Week 3
Document Summary
Culture=man-machine: culture as pursuit of perfection, the best which has been thought and said , (hey i"m going to go to the museum and get some culture) High vs. low culture: high culture-opera, low culture-lady gaga. Culture relativism: understanding cultural differences without assigning value, cartoon both women are looking at each other ethnocentrically, One women wearing a swim suit with sunglasses and the other wearing full body covering- everything covered but her eyes what cruel male dominated culture! . Material culture: everything that is part of our constructed environment, examples of cultural objects-gun, books, toy train, fashion. Nonmaterial culture: values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms, values: moral beliefs, norms: are social rules based on values. Subculture: a group distinct from the larger culture and united by shared meaning (define it by how they behave what they wear ) What"s in a name: names follow socially-structured patterns (old persons name and young persons name, reflect cultural trends, fashions, sometimes imply race.
