PPAS 1110 Lecture 2: Chapter 2 ppas 1110

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 1110
• Professor: Daniel Cohn

Document Summary

A system of concepts and behaviours with agreed meanings that is shared by a group of humans, which both simplifies and facilitate their interactions. A historical pathway for the development of both factual knowledge (ontology) and ideas about how we know and understand the world (epistemology) A culture that emerged in western europe during the renaissance that has origins (among other places) with the biblical people of the middle-east, and which was transmitted through the. Mediterranean empires (hellenic, roman, etc. ) and the indigenous cultures the mediterranean empires displaced. It has now spread throughout the world due to european colonization, both military and economic in nature and the success of some of the european colonies. Western culture dominates entire planet cultures may also dominate certain regions of out planet forcing others that come from different culture to adapt and take account culture as a power of resource.