SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Preppy, Cultural Capital, Industrial Revolution
8 Nov 2017
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Culture: was a way to distinguish between people of different classes. What constitutes culture: material: the inventions, tools, physical things people use, create, appropriate, non-material: ways of thinking, patterns of behavior. A nonmaterial aspect of food culture: when you eat dinner, who you eat with, waste of food. Culture shapes the material world: decisions made by people in power, we should try including people of all mobility. Values, norms, and sanctions: values: set of beliefs we share, sanctions: consequences; positive and negative ways of enforcing norms. Types of norms: folkways: (cid:374)or(cid:373)s that are(cid:374)"t strictly e(cid:374)forced, ex: physical habits, taboos: unspeakable norms, university of culture, the idea of culture is universal. Culture shock: ethnocentrism: viewing your own culture as the norm. Variability in culture: subgroups: goths: mostly wear black, have a language, another subculture: hippies, gay men, preppy, occupational: firefighters, nurses. Code switching: changing your culture to adapt to your surroundings.
