CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - United States
8 Mar 2014
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Who was harold innis: born in otterville, ontario, studied at mcmaster (b. a. & m. a. : completed his ph. d. in political economy at the university of chicago. Innis"s philosophy: people inhabit both a symbolic and a material environment. The invisible hand : smith the moralist influenced innis the moralist, the theory of moral sentiments (a. smith, communities share values and beliefs that constrain the market. Changes in the mode of communication lie at the heart of social, cultural and economic evolution. Time-binding media: were either oral (emphasizing social links) or hand-written, less transportable, harder to work with and more durable than space- binding media. Space-binding media: are easier to work with, contain more information, are easier to transport and are less durable than time-binding media. Summary of minerva"s owl : creativity and learning attain their highest level only when a society has begun to decline.
