SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cooperativeness, Casual Sex, Cultural Relativism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Social control: attempts by others to regulate peoples thoughts and behaviour, shame: the painful sense that others disapprove of our actions, guilt: a negative judgement we make about ourselves. Ideal culture: the way things should be, social patterns mandated by values and norms, real culture, the way things actually occur in everyday life, social patterns that only approximate cultural expectations. East: canada is considered a cultural mosaic while the usa is a melting pot. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism: ethnocentrism: the practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture, cultural relativism: the practice of judging a culture by its own standards. Theoretical analysis of culture: the functions of culture, structural functional analysis, culture is a complex strategy for meeting human needs, this is its function in society, cultural universals: traits that are part of every known culture. Includes family, funeral rites, and jokes: critical review.