SOCI 2F60 Lecture Notes - Sexual Assault, Hidden Curriculum, Natural Experiment
14 Jan 2013
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These are the kinds of issues that plague people in positions of authority today. All animals take from nature to subsist, and apes may sometimes use rocks to break other objects, or walking sticks to steady themselves as they cross fast-flowing streams. But only humans are intelligent and agile enough to manufacture tools and use them to produce everything from food to satellites; in this sense, production is a uniquely human activity. This line of thought gave rise to the field of cultural studies, which overlaps the sociology of culture (griswold, 1992; long, 1997; spillman, 2002). Image: many westerners find the indian practice of cow worship bizarre; however, cow worship performs a number of useful economic functions and is in that sense entirely rational. By viewing cow worship exclusively as an outsider (or, for that matter, exclusively as an insider), we fail to see its rational core.
