SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Marvin Harris
1 Oct 2016
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High culture: is culture summed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, etc. ) Popular culture: (or mass culture) is culture consumed by all classes (movies, pop music, etc. ) Culture: consists of the shared symbol and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems. Symbols: are concrete objects or abstract dimension in which a symbols definition informs to us what a symbol represents. Abstraction: the ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize sensory experiences. Allows people to organize, classify, interpret, and generalize their experiences. Beliefs: are cultural statements that define what community members consider real. When beliefs are shared in a community, members accept such beliefs as truth. Cooperation: the capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong. Norms: are generally accepted ways of doing things. Because they are the least important norms, violating them evokes the least severe punishment.
