IS 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Family
15 Oct 2016
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Culture refers to the universal human capacity to classify, codify, Culture provides symbolic meanings that endow human existence with meaning. Ground our being by allowing us to understand. And provide the foundation upon which we establish ourselves as persons in the world and as members of groups. Cultures represent the (cid:498)silent codes(cid:499) of human dev. Thus we begin our study of culture through the lens of childhood and human development. We take into ourselves the culture of the other that nurtures us. In infancy, we learn to know ourselves according to how the nurturing other treats us. We absorb cultural habits, sensitivities and modes of relation without self-conscious awareness of the learning process. Each of us is a child of culture. What this means is that we learn who we are from (cid:498)the other(cid:499) Infantile spirit or unconscious develops by seeking to become the cause of desire.
