ACCT 2000 Chapter : Chapter 20 Student
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Our common stock of knowledge: accumulated knowledge of that society, every society"s knowledge is going to be different, atl-atl tool used to throw spear, we don"t need to know this upon a bunch of other things. Every society has to figure out common stock of knowledge: williams i. thomas, the thomas theorem. If men define situation as real, then they are real in their consequences. If you define someone as your friend, then you treat him or her as a friend. If you change the definition of that person, you will treat them differently: we act to how we define the world. Language of any society not only reflects any society if influences and directs that culture. Language is tool societies develop to transmit information of that society. Language used to describe society: almost all thoughts are verbal thoughts, not only vocabulary but syntax and grammar are very structured, worldview cognitive ordering of universe.
