SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Consumerism, International Trade, Making Money
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Culture is the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real - life problems. Culture is the socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real - life problems. There are many di erent ways people cope with stress (prayers, special jewellery, luck, food, etc. ) Of course while some of the rituals had more direct in uences, it may also have indirectly reduced the person anxiety and relax them. High culture: culture consumed mainly by upper classes. Popular culture/mass culture: culture consumed by all classes. All classes consume popular/mass culture only upper class tend to consume high culture. However these distinctions are not enough to determine sociological de nition of culture. Sociology de nes culture as the sum of ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Religion helps people give meaning to life and come to terms with death.
