Psychology 3845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erving Goffman, Nominalism, Labeling Theory
17 Dec 2016
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What he is saying here is that everything we do does indeed have biological constraints, clearly there are things of the human body that does make the human body and the brain possible. Ia(cid:374) ha(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g: the (cid:862)loopi(cid:374)g effe(cid:272)ts(cid:863) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) ki(cid:374)ds. What hacking is talking about in this paper is how that certain human kinds are created under certain human constraints. Distinguishing between the kind of things humans can be, which causes science to be a bit more problematic compared to other things in the world. No matter what thing you find in the environment and different habitats will always be the same (i. e. looking at hydrogen that is located in different environments) Part of what it means to be a person in a human world especially in the large scale industrial society comes about from the categories we use to describe them.
