POL 2103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Nuclear Arms Race
25 Dec 2017
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Culture is about meaning and how humans make sense of their lives and the world around them. Without meaning there would be no society or social relations. Meaning is constitutive of social relations different meanings produce different societies (example: banking is different in uk and us) It is in and through shared as well as contested meanings that people become conscious of the world, of the place of war in it, and of their interconnections with other peoples and places. Culture is the medium or context through which interconnections worked their effects (for example, indian soldiers arriving back in their country and acting differently) Cultural frameworks derived from wartime experience are fundamental to the ways in which people come to an awareness of the world. Through the age of exploration and european imperialism, a global image of the world has been made available to humanity.
