SOSC 1000 Midterm: Midterm review.doc

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Holmberg"s mistake: false observation of the native american people, our judgments are not as accurate as we believe them to be. Interpretations of native americans because of the circumstances, they were the wrong ones: native americans were oppressed, mistake made in judging the aboriginal people generally, under a form of cohesion, not themselves, misjudged, was not accurate. Significance: intertwining on myth story/ columbus reading read journals interpretation of native americans. Makes us aware that there are more sides to a truth, facilitates our thinking towards myth history, bias in history. Holmberg"s mistake is the recent realization that many of our assumptions about native american life (on both continents) may be incorrect because most of our observations of their cultures were made while these peoples were under great pressure. Honor: only as a case study: specific greek society (the sarakatsan family, honor specifically definition for men and women (pg.