SOC-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Sociobiology, Epigenetics, Colloquialism
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Values: ideas about right and wrong behavior. Knowledge and beliefs: ideas about god, ordinary behavior, the order of the. Expectation: how our actions are going to be reciprocated. Perception: ability to see/hear/become aware of something through the senses. Material culture: things that populate our world and carry symbolic content. Symbols: all kinds of stuff used for communicating. The most important symbol set in any culture is language. Language is a vehicle for other cultural elements, like stories/narratives, and it. Practices: ways we eat our food, wear our clothes, express ourselves, etc. A green stop light, nodding, emoticons allows cultures to be transmitted and persist. But also pragmatics: the way we invoke beliefs or express values or activate objects. In the 1960s, many sociologists emphasized values: to be a member of a culture. Talcott parsons believed there was strong alignment between people"s was to be devoted to a certain set of values values and their behavior.
