Geology so in this video in ouer you know 1 introduction to sociology we’re talking about symbols now the reason why we’re talking about this is not all the because you use this in symbols in your life every day but also in our next units overexcited l’m excited let’s get started now there’s one tem that you’re going to need to know that you’ll see on teacher assessment are matching section Jersey to take a picture that write that down and save it who are preparing for our future assessment on our unit one test without further ado let’s get into cells now symbols are the definition of it’s a very Bay Gemany really actually want to know what the definition of the symbol is its anything that represents something else that doesn’t happen necessarily be sign it could be a physical gesture it could be an object just think he could be were jerking even be up then see what they need for instance 7 you let me knoe what this means this is a sign that l leamed when l was in college I meant awkward turte and whenever an awkward situation him about myself friends we made this simple so we wouldn’t know I was really awkward without letting the people around us know that however forcible to really be in society everyone has to agree on its meaning and that doesn’t necessarily never everyone in the country if you just be mean everyone in a Acer lnc society for a generational purpose like college or high school it can be for ABC for its if you went to texas football game know everyone’s doing this now may also be like this this’ll work as well um this in texas is the texas Longhoms simple Longhoms take call and text you ever see that they’re simple CC a lot of people doing this however some people doing this me do it at a rock concert represent something completely different so you have to be careful when you’re in different societies societies are different countries are even different parts of the country because the symbols they use may not be the symbols that you understand be very careful with that now there’s a certain type group that study symbols that people use when the interacting those are really called ensure action I’m symbolic interaction is gestures that people use when they’re we came so I’m going to try to treat someone I would only she my hands I’m you would now how we saw on using that particular symbol now so it’s really important to understsand those things how symbols happy use nearly as long as humans have been around however you want to estimate that humans have been around on symbols have been use and allow the reasons we know that is because % UH cave paintings we’ve seen a couple of them in spain and france that actually gone bake 30,000 years now a lot of these paintings are % UH animals different levels people and a lot of their meaty you know exactly know why someone took the time to pay these animals me because it’s for religious purposes the because its leisure time and it’s something that that person just decide to do with some israel’s huge we would love to know exactly why people thirt thousand years ago did really when you get down to it these people want to communicate cell day and normally communicate we use words but you can also use pictures as well the most coming symbol that you see in society are languages written languages you use that every day to communicate with other people you can read other people’s communication princes whenever you go on the in temet and you go on certain web sites you read about what’s going on in the world you’re reading it some bowls now the important thing about languages everyone in that society has to agree this is the written language for using education kinda in forces thatidea because we teach you how to right teach you how to read in this particular language that is used in that society for instance if you did not agree that that’s how English is written or French is written or Arabic is written or Mandarin Chinese is written we have a tough time communicating in writing because you have agreed on those simple so it’s very important in deciding between decided to try lean another language that what you are writing is the actual language up another society and the reason why I languages are created is because not everything can be expressed through different adjust your zoom words but we also me were pictures wall really accurately describe certain symbols in sight so we need a written language also for record keeping and things along those lines now I’ll show you just ps3 in for a second where the English alphabet the English setup symbols come from and how the communicate I’m in writing now the earliest origins up the English language is actually finish Phoenicians we’re an ancient seafaring people thousands of year ago and this in the red is their alphabet now the Greeks took definition language and adapted to themselves and everyone in act 3 decided agreed on their meetings then the early latins or Romans took back Greek language i