SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High Culture, Cultural Capital, Subculture
28 Dec 2015
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Types of norms: folkways- norms about daily behaviour, mores- norms formalized often as laws, taboos- deeply ingrained norms. Intimate distance- up to 18 inches: personal distance- inches to 4 feet, social distance- 4 to 7 feet, public distance- 12 feet or more. All societies have developed certain common practices and beliefs. Process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society. Tendency to assume that one"s own culture and way of life represents the norm or is superior to all others: reverse ethnocentrism (xenocentrism) Assumption that a culture different from one"s own is superior: cultural relativism. Cultural practices and beliefs are best explained in that cultural context. Language is determined by culture and shapes people"s reality. Create concepts, develop language, influences how we think. Other points: culture is learned, socially transmitted behaviour, and contains norms, values, and symbols, norms include folkways, mores, and taboos.
