SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Survival Kit, Multicultural Education

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Greg Bird

Document Summary

Culture (31): all the ideas practice and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems. High culture (32): culture consumed by upper classes: opera, ballet, art. Popular/mass culture (32): consumed by all class cultures. Society (32): number of people who interact in a territory. Culture composed of socially transmitted ideas/practices/material objects people to adapt their environment. Long time ago created a cultural survival kit: human talent. Abstraction (33): general ideas that are not linked to particular instances. Allow to classify experience and generalize from it. Cooperation (33): human capacity to create complex social life by sharing resources and working together: established by creating norms, norms generally accepted ways of doing things. Production (34): human capacity use tools and improve ability to take what we want from nature. Folkway (34): specify social preferences: least severe punishments when violated. More (34): norms specify in social requirements: norms that people believe is essential for the survival of the group.