SOC 3116 Study Guide - Noam Chomsky, Profit Motive, Manufacturing Consent
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Unique elements: our communication is unique, understand the meaning of communication and how it shape us, language is unique to humans, humans have innate capacity to communicate in a rich sophisticated number, not duplicated in the animal world, noam chomsky is a linguist, humans sophisticated culture, sophisticated languages. Neopostmen reader: speech he delivered in 1998, quote: despite of our adoption of new tech dilemma , quote means that despite older technology being profoundly different; it doesn"t mean though that their are things that we can"t learn historically in their engagement of new technology, technology that seems now archaic (telegraph) the experience of this new tech was likely just as profound, if more so then the emergence of new technology in this new day, very easy to misunderstand that we need to forget the past and focus on the now, things change but similar experience may have occurred in the past.
