Saturday, March 22, 2014

Introduction to Sociology/Culture

Summary
The culture's range is from micro to global. And they also can be divided high and low, old and new.
The concept of culture also has been detailed more and more. The culture is artificial because it is from people, but is also natural because it cannot be forced to be. The culture can be divided to Subcultures and Countercultures but they commonly inspire sentiments of unity and mutual support. There is lots of theories of culture, Ritzer explained it with 4 elements. (macro-objective, micro-objective, marco-subjective, micro-subjective)

Expression
I think sociology in culture has lots of point of contract with anthropology. I think because culture is from human being's genic elements. And I think Ethnocentrism is bad because we are living in world giving and taking cultures with every countries. we need to have open mind.

Question
I really wonder if culture is word only in human beings. I think animal's actions can be culture too.
But actually they can't to be divied like 'old and new' and maynot have 'culture' 's characteristic and history.  
  

3 comments:

  1. I think animal's actions can be culture. But it is difficult to find out answer. (Soyoung/annie)

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  3. I think animal's behavior is not culture but habit.

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