SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Turn, Linguistic Relativity, Semiotics
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Culture is made up of: values, abstract ideas about what is right and wrong, norms, standards of behavior, material goods, the objects and goods a society creates, language and symbols \ Incest prohibition: grammatically complex language, family systems and marriage. C: art, dancing, and body adornments, games, gift giving, and joking, rules of hygiene. Language: linguistic relativity hypothesis, everything has a name for it, speech and writing, signifier, symbols, semiotics, non verbal cues that we use. Pastoral nd agrarian societies: second oldest type of society, pastoral-tending of domesticated animals, agrarian-cultivation of crops, some accumulation of material possessions, more inequality, competition, and concentration of power. Traditional societies: third oldest type of society, disappeared in the 1800s, cities, great inequalities of power and wealth, and ruled by kings or emperors. Industrialization destroyed the forms of society that dominated prior periods. A: machine production based on use of inanimate power resources. Table 3. 1*: mostly urban, more developed political systems.
