Knowledge, Culture and Society. Peter Burke
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Название: Knowledge, Culture and Society

Автор: Peter Burke

Издательство: Bookwire

Жанр: Социология

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isbn: 9789587831344

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СКАЧАТЬ knowledge that determines the precise conditions for their appropriate use and the symbolic nuances that should be added to their interpretation.20

      That’s why this type of knowledge can conceive a better reality, adapted to our needs (progress):

      […] the one who has penetrated the secret of plants can produce new plants, more fertile and nutritive; the one who has understood natural selection can institute artificial selection. […] Knowledge of what exists leads to technique, which enables the fabrication of an improved existent.

      Its results are universal, valid for all, since they determine the “objective laws of the real” that can be put in place by its supporters to guide the world at their will. That is, extending Todorov’s reflections a bit more, what all forms of colonialism and neo-colonialism have done all around the world to a certain extent since the Modern Age.

      We could say that reflections on culture have taken place within two great traditions that, although not unique, are the most outstanding and, more importantly, most sustained over time, and from which a large part of current studies are derived: the tradition of studies, history, philosophy and sociology of culture, and the German cultural critique (including the Volkskunde), which can be traced back to the18th century, and the so-called cultural and social anthropology, with all its derivatives.