SOC100H5 Chapter Notes -Subculture, Consumerism, Ethnocentrism
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Culture is the sum of shared ideas, practices and material objects that people. 1. create to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. 2. abstractly, cooperate with one another, and make tools. Development of culture can restrict people or make them freer. Humans have thrived in their environments because of their ability to think. Society: a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory and share a culture. Symbols: abstraction: the capacity to create general ideas of ways of thinking that are not lined to particular instances, symbols: things that carry particular meaning. Norms and values: cooperation: the capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together, norms: the generally accepted way of doing things. Production, material culture and non-material culture: production: the human capacity to make and use tools, material culture: the tools and techniques that enable people to accomplish tasks, non-material culture: symbols, norms and other non-tangible elements of culture.
