SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Hegemony, Social Inequality, Reality Television
9 Jul 2016
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Culture: a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that members of a society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning. Society: a large group of people (ex: canadian society) who interact with one another in accordance with the values, beliefs, customs, behaviours, and artefacts of a common culture. Our survival depends on social relationships formed w/ one another: ex: tom & wilson from castaway: human need for social relationship even though he could physically survive by himself. To survive together we develop: technologies, social institutions, ways of communicating, rules governing behaviour, values and belief systems. People belonging to the same culture interpret the world and express themselves in the same way. Culture = way of making sense of the world. Four primary characteristics of culture: culture is learned. 4. collective rather than just the behavior of one of them.
