SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Subculture, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
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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. High culture- culture consumed mainly by upper classes. Society- a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture. Abstraction- the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. Symbol- anything that carries a particular meaning, including the components of language, mathematical notations, and signs. Symbols allow us to classify experience and generalize from it. People have superstitions that help them cope with anxiety and other personal things as they believe that by abiding to these superstitions they are relieving their anxiety. This is a form of culture, as it is a belief in something. The human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances.
