SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Interracial Marriage
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Chapter 2 culture: culture as problem solving. Culture is the sum of shared ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. People create rituals or wear lucky jewelry or clothing in order to deal with anxiety, pressure, and stressful events. Methods we create to deal with real-life problems, like tools and religion. High culture is culture consumed mainly by upper classes. Popular culture or mass culture is culture consumed by all classes. A number of people who interact, usually bin a defined territory, and share a culture: the origins and components of culture. Humans have thrived in their environments because of their unique ability to think abstractly, cooperate with one another, and make tools. Despite certain predicaments, ancient humans survived and modern humans now dominate nature because humans possess sophisticated brains that allowed them to create complex and flexible cultural survival kits with tools that were uniquely human talent.
