Talk:Introduction to Sociology/Culture

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you use the same example about art in this chapter as you did in the previous chapter. Can you come up with a different example?

-Maybe later.

[edit] To do

(1) Extend the theory section on culture to include:

  • Structural-Functionalism
    • Culture is a complex strategy for meeting human needs.
    • Ignores cultural diversity
  • Social-Conflict Analysis
    • Culture and inequality; any cultural trait benefits some members of society at the expense of others
    • Understates the ways in which cultural patterns integrate members of society
  • Sociobiology and Symbolic Interactionism
    • Explores how human biology affects how culture is created; cultural universals reflect the necessities of continued life
    • Non-eugenicist; lack of evidence?

(2) Include cultural universals:

  • The Family
  • Funeral Rites
  • Smiling and Humor
  • Deviance

(3) Add section on norms, values, and sanctions.

(4) Add section on language and gestures.

Thomasfbrown (talk) 22:03, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

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