Culture is what define us by the way we dress, talk, eat, talk, think and feel. Now days societies around the world share different cultures because of the immigration. Most of us can say that know somebody from a different culture.
Some times we experience what its called a "culture shock". this happens because when we are unfamiliar with a certain culture. For example: when I heard that people in Korea likes to eat dogs and cats, that was very shocking, because in my culture that would never happen, its just wrong for us.
The elements of culture are Symbols. We use symbols to recognize something particular like, traffic signs, graffiti on a wall, a flag, and most common now days the symbols that we use to write messages on our cellphones.
language its another important element, values and beliefs, norms, technology, are also elements in the culture of a society. This chapter teach us how to understand the different cultures in our world and to learn how to live all together within our differences, tolerating and sharing our good ways of life.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
sociology: perspective, theory, and method.
In today's class we talk about the different perspectives we all have towards societies. The influences on how we act, think and feel.
The Sociological Perspective is something that WE, as potential chefs, need to understand, to have a clear idea of what food are we going to sell in a particular place of the planet.
According to this chapter, "we live in an individualistic society, learning to see how society affect us may take a bit of practice".
That's why we need to try to understand Sociology if we don't want to make any mistakes when we open a busyness in a certain place. I have seen those mistakes everywhere and it's not hard to wonder on " How this people thought that an upscale gourmet restaurant was going to be a good busyness in such a crappy neighborhood?" . Well it happens!.
Also we can totally succeed if we study very carefully the place in which our busyness is going to be at. "A kosher restaurant in a city that has a big Jewish community".This may be a good thing, right?.
But then again, we need to be careful, maybe the city has too many of those restaurants and one more is not going to be notice.
Anyways, the point is that the Sociological Perspective, it's a very important tool that can help us to succeed, and the understanding of it, it's our next goal, for now!.
The Sociological Perspective is something that WE, as potential chefs, need to understand, to have a clear idea of what food are we going to sell in a particular place of the planet.
According to this chapter, "we live in an individualistic society, learning to see how society affect us may take a bit of practice".
That's why we need to try to understand Sociology if we don't want to make any mistakes when we open a busyness in a certain place. I have seen those mistakes everywhere and it's not hard to wonder on " How this people thought that an upscale gourmet restaurant was going to be a good busyness in such a crappy neighborhood?" . Well it happens!.
Also we can totally succeed if we study very carefully the place in which our busyness is going to be at. "A kosher restaurant in a city that has a big Jewish community".This may be a good thing, right?.
But then again, we need to be careful, maybe the city has too many of those restaurants and one more is not going to be notice.
Anyways, the point is that the Sociological Perspective, it's a very important tool that can help us to succeed, and the understanding of it, it's our next goal, for now!.
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