SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Product Placement, Nuclear Family, Protestant Reformation
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Superstitious practices of athletes put them at ease. Superstitions help people solve the challenges of life. The concrete level of experience is composed of your empirical sensations of touch, 3. 2 culture as meaning generator taste, smell, sound and sight. Squiggles don"t mean anything because concrete, physical sensations by themselves are meaningless. With meaningful english words, the culture gives concrete experience meaning. The power of culture is that it makes our sensory experiences meaningful. Once your cultural experience conditions you to interpret concrete experiences in a certain way, this becomes a reality. Everyday speech refers to: high culture culture consumed mainly by upper classes (opera, ballet, etc. , popular culture (or mass culture) is culture consumed by all classes. Sociologically speaking culture consists of the shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems: symbol concrete things or abstract terms that represent something else, eg.
