HUMN-2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Traditional Chinese Characters, Nicolaus Copernicus, Karl Popper
4 Jul 2020
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Humn 2006: the culture of science: the difference between "culture" and scientific culture. Ww2: concentration camps used to kill masses - using gas showers and other methods, peace communion with leaders from united states, united kingdom and soviet russia, united kingdom had to dissolve their kingdom to purse this peace agreement. Winston churchill: after ww2, rested and became a cultured men, help process the need of culture for moral direction for humanities, believe humanities and culture can prevent war. Living culture - folk culture = based on poor documentation of oral history from 19th century. They were trying getting a sense of identity, many societies (folk societies) trying to create culture. Important to understand darwism: he was threatened by american jazz, begin as all white swing bands, youth culture that began to emerge with more popular culture, 1959 - 1962. Snow: one culture: traditional, "organic" society was good, life negatively affected by industrialization, far-sighted elite needed to cultivate.
