SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Week, Lunar Phase, Relativism
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Assumes that the way you think is determined by the language you speak. Different languages result in different ideas about reality/the world. A rigid view where language determines certain outcomes. Assumes that differences b/w languages do not determine, but instead reflect, the different worldview of speakers. Linguistic differences are the results of cultural differences in thinking. A fluid view where worldviews can be modified, expanded, and reshaped. There are 29. 5306 day in a lunar cycle. 7 day week is just an approximation of lunar cycle. Three 10-day intervals (ancient china, greece, ahanta of ghana, maori of new zealand) Workers had 5th day off (but everyone had different schedules) Designed to secularize society, remove itself from religion. Agrarian workers took off old days and new days. The practice of treating a human product as something that is inevitable or natural. That we need the regular week day system as it allows society to be functional and keep its calm.
