SOC 10000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Subculture, Social Forces, Attack On Pearl Harbor
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Definitions of culture: culture is a vague term used to describe and rationalize, and as a shorthand for multiple things, culture = human nature. Culture is a set of beliefs, traditions, and practices; or in other words, the total sum of social categories and concepts people embrace in addition to beliefs, behaviors, and practices. Instead of being defined as agricultural, like the latin meaning of the word suggests, the most common definition is about humans: culture = (superior) man (inferior) man. After the encounter of new information in the new world, philosophers defined culture in contrast to nature and what other people do. Eth(cid:374)o(cid:272)e(cid:374)tris(cid:373) is the (cid:271)elief that o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other (cid:272)ultures fro(cid:373) the perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e of o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374: culture = man machine. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, good started to be mass produced and fairly priced so average person could afford it.
