HECOL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Capital, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Fritter

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL201
• Professor: Melinda Pinfold

Document Summary

Lecture 16! ethics and morality around material culture! positive psychologist - ! Ow - approach in psych. positive reinforcement by being mindful of what you are doing! Aesthetic experiences - simply just are. admire the beauty of other thing - nature, art ! A materialist ! a person whose psychic energy is disproportionately invested in things and their symbolic derivates ! Power based on possessions ! one whose life consists mainly of experiences with the material dimensions of life ! Things and thingness! a material experience is fundamentally different from other types of experiences, ex. the:! Our physical survival - the health of the planet ! Our psychological well being ! but the evolution of consciousness requires that we turn psychic energy away from our present needs in order to create! ideas! feelings! relationships ! Build the ability to enjoy a richer life later!