SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Consumerism, Ethnocentrism, Subculture
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Chapter 3: culture: root of culture is solving the problem of meaning, power of culture: makes sensory experiences meaningful, high culture: is culture consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, etc, popular culture: culture consumed by all classes, culture: consists of shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real life problems, symbols: are concrete things or abstract terms that represent something else, culture composed of symbols whose meanings are shared among a substantial number of people, common culture: acquire set of shared, meaningful symbols, abstraction: the ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize concrete, sensory experience (theories, cooperation: the capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong (experiments, norms: generally accepted ways of doing things, values: ideas that identify desirable states (conditions that are true, good, or beautiful, production: human capacity to make and use tools.
