SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Relativism, Boron, Ethnocentrism
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Culture: the sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. A society involves people interacting socially and sharing culture, usually in a defined geographical area. Culture is the sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, material objects that enable people to adapt to, thrive in their environments. Abstraction is the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of: abstraction: creating symbols thinking that are not linked to particular instances of language, mathematical notations, and signs. Symbols allow us to classify experience and generalize from it. Symbol: anything that carries a particular meaning, including components. Cooperation is the human capacity to create a complex social life by: cooperation: creating norms and values sharing resources and working together ugly. Values: ideas about what is right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and o. Three types of norms: folkways, mores and taboos.
