ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Edward Burnett Tylor, Sigmund Freud, Polytheism
18 Aug 2017
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Chapter 4: the social and cultural construction of reality. Anthropological explanation: early writers, such as edward tylor, emile durkheim, bronislaw malinowski and sigmund. Symbolic actions: language make our knowledge concrete and to communicate with others, rituals, myths, arts, literature, and music shape our beliefs, all play a role in organizing and making a particular view of the world. Sapir-whord hypotheis: according to sapir and whord, vocabulary reflects the social and physical environment of a people, whorf noticed that the inuit have a variety of words for different kinds of snow. In english, whord points out, there are two dominant types of sentences: the subject-predi(cid:272)ate type: (cid:862)the (cid:271)ook is gree(cid:374), the actor-a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) type: (cid:862) ally ru(cid:374)s(cid:863) In both cases, the subject is spoken of as if it were an enduring object. In english, we view the world as being made up objects. Rationalizing beliefs: people may defend their beliefs, even if they contain contradictions by such processes as, 1.
