SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Designer Clothing, Dani People, Edward Sapir

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Cultural differences in terms of food, kissing, lucky and unlucky numbers: Number 4 in chinese is bad (sounds like death in their language) and 8 is luck. We are all the same biologically, but humans have made up what"s right/wrong, The practice of kissing varies in different countries beautiful/ugly, acceptable/repulsive = expression of human culture. Some intend culture to be defined as sophistication, manners, etiquette, high priced living. Culture includes: the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next. Way we cry, laugh, feel is shaped by social environment it is learned, shared and transmitted from generation to another it is the blueprint for living in a particular society. Tend to take our own way of life for granted and view it as the normal. Culture shock arises from being placed in a different culture.