SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnocentrism

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5

Document Summary

Culture a collection of learned ideas, practices, symbols, customs and material objects. Human made, and we learn these as we are raised in our families, communities and. We come to understand the symbols that are important in our culture; as they carry schools meaning behaviors. We have cultural traditions; we learn the practices we are expected to participate in and. To think of culture sociology we need to understand where we see culture everyday and how it may shape the interactions that we have with people (both within and outside our culture). How it helps build communities but also has it can contribute to devising communities and relate to inequality. Culture is a part of what defines a society and it exists within society. Society tends to refer more to a group of people that live in a particular territory. When using the word society we are typically referring to a geographical area.