SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Long Term Ecological Research Network

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Professor Tepperman

Document Summary

Real-life sociology chapter 3: culture as ways of seeing reality. It is something people learn through socialization to enact in their everyday behaviour. Culture re ects the values and norms that direct the behaviour of people who belong to a particular society. Values- we mean all of the things that people in a society feel, think, believe, desire and aspire to. Social norms: rules, whether written or unwritten, that people are expected to follow as members of a particular group, community or society. Culture is also shaped by technological developments. Culture is a lter through which we view (and judge) other people"s actions. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to use one"s own culture as a basis for evaluating other cultures; also, the view that your culture is superior to other cultures. Accepting cultural variation as a fact of life and avoiding ethnocentrism are not easy. Sometimes people simply fail to take note of other ways of thinking.