SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Cultural Relativism, Edward Sapir
22 Nov 2016
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Ogburn (1957) describe how technology often outpaces society"s ability to adjust to it: culture nothing bad/good about culture, human cultures is diverse what a culture de nes as appropriate is a re ection of human cultural variation. Origins of culture: no one can determined how culture originated, paleoanthropologist and archeologist have studies various aspect of evolution of human clutter determined when culture began, these elements suggest that elements of human culture predates modern humans. Social life-early hominid ancestors lived in groups. Pair bonding-attachment of male to female 2. 4 and 1. 9 million year ago. Subsistence tools for hunting-2. 6 million years ago. Environmental adaptation used of caves 800,000 years, re 450,000, sewing 30,000. Though, language, art, and religion-earliest art-250 000, neanderthal performing funerals 100,000. Homo sapiens 200,000 years africa and moved to other places. Culture is learned no one is born with culture, as we grow we are immersed in the culture traditions of our parents and peers.
