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Daryl Bambic

2012: End of the World Perceptions and Myths CyArk - 0 views

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world myths millenarianism

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  • adily fueled by our market economy, in which countless vendors have rushed to fuel the flames of fear in order to sell survivalist goods such as dry food rations, duct tape, firearms, and plastic sheeting - all strongly echoic of the y2k scare less of than a decade ago
  • pecific time frame in our
  • eschatology
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  • n era of our present world comes to an end and experiences a renewal of some sort
  • Norsemen
  • Ragnarok,
  • entire world is temporarily flooded and only two humans survive to repopulate a renewed planet
  • Hopi Indians
  • on-Hopi ways
  • shamans
  • panish Conquistadores
  • creator spirit Maasaw
  • concepts of creation, destruction, and renewa
  • Hinduism
  • Hinduism
  • Shiva,
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • atomic bomb,
  • Abrahamist religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) deal with Armageddon and the Last Judgement of all human souls by God, and also tell the story of Noah's Ark
  • awm al-Qiyamah (Day of Resurrection)
  • nd the Book of Daniel's
  • Revelation
  • Daryl Bambic on 11 Jan 12
     
    comparative myths of the end of time
Alex Maguid

World / Global Inequality | Inequality.org - 0 views

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Inequality

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      This would be a nice simple definition of what is global inequality
  • Global inequality refers to the extent to which income and wealth is distributed in an uneven manner among the world’s population
  • redit Suisse numbers released in October 2010 show that the richest 0.5 percent of global adults hold well over a third of the world’s wealth.
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  • The best estimates for wealth’s concentration at the global economic summit come from Forbes magazine. Forbes annually tallies the fortunes of the world’s billionaires. The world’s 1,210 current billionaires, Forbes reported in March 2011, hold a combined wealth that equals over half the total wealth of the 3.01 billion adults around the world who, according to Credit Suisse, hold under $10,000 in net worth.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Interesting statistics and facts that would be great for my TFAD
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      To summarize this page it gives several stats and facts on how the worlds richest people are richer then the total of all the poorest people and how they have finally come out with sound reports with more statistics proving their theory. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      The reference in this text is incredible because you can use their database for your use and you can compare the incomes of different countries.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      This text gives us a statistic on how some adults are just insanely rich compared to the common man
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      More sites that i can go on to find info
Daryl Bambic

Chapter 02 - Sociological Imagination - 6 views

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Imagination Sociological

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  • The national cost of a gallon of gas, the War in the Middle East, the repressed economy, the trend of having too few females in the 18-24 year old singles market, and the ever-increasing demand for plastic surgery are just a few of the social facts at play today
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Social facts are experiences as 'outside' of an individual's control. 
  • but we rarely find a way to significantly impact them back.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      They impact us but we don't (or very rarely) have an impact on them.
  • False Social Conscious which  is an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Do you think teens live this way...ignorant of social facts?
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      Absolutely i think that teens live by the following : Ignorance is bliss. And can you blame them? Can you blame any one that thinks this way for that matter. In a sense i wish i could be ignorant to problems present in society because I A) Wouldn't feel so threatened by things i cant control and B) I wouldn't feel morally or ethically at fault for the decisions of my nation.
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  • real power of the sociological imagination is found in how you and I learn to distinguish between the personal and social levels in our own lives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      This is the reason that this sociological imagination is important.  How does this resemble Sam Richard's idea of 'radical empathy'?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that it relates because the more you understand the social facts, the more you'll have sociological imagination and the more you'll have radical empathy.
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
       
      people can be selfish and only think about themselves. then there are the people that care about about other people and try to imagine what if they had the same problems for example there family
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal troubles relate with each other. Sometimes things such as our environment can affect our "personal troubles" such as, obesity, depression, poverty, etc. 
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles radical empathy in the fact that they both require a person to be able to recognize social facts.
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
       
      These two things are intertwined because many of out personal trouble is caused by these social facts that we are powerless against.
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that this relates because in a sense, we all need to know whats really going on even if it isn't necessarily things that are reported on our daily news channels. I think the relation is that we need to learn to think about things that we wouldn't nesceseraly like to be true, much like how most people find it uneasy to step into the shoes of Iraqi war prisoners.
    • Alyssa Cohen
      Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
       
      Personal troubles and social facts are very closely related. If you have a sociological imagination, you can see the social facts in different situations or different parts of the world, which makes you more understanding. That is where the radical empathy ties in.
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
       
      They share the same thought of looking at the situation from another perspective. "Putting yourself in their shoes". Radical empathy plays an important role, it allows us to see how they feel. 
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal problems are related in some kind of way. Radical empathy is the relationship and getting to understand the difference between you and other people. 
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
       
      By understanding empathy and the sociological imagination, we become a step closer in having a much broader, educated and compassionate picture of the world we live in, all six billion of us. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles the idea because you must be open to put yourself in the other peoples shoes and to understand the bigger picture and that includes understanding the different players in the games
    • sydney goldman
      sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Theres a fine difference between social facts and sociological imagination and both are believed to change us into the people we are today. However, in order to understand not only the way in which you are personally effected but how the other societies are effected by there own sociological imagination/social facts. rational empathy come into play when we begin to understand the social facts of the people that your own personal fats have taught you to be bling too.
    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
       
      They ressemble each other because in both, they require a person to be aware and take into account the social facts. 
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social imagination and radical empathy relate because you need to understand social facts to have radical empathy. 
  • C. Wright Mills (1916-1962
  • neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"
  • Troubles”
  • Issues"
  • 50 percent of all college students in the country never graduate, we call that a larger social issue.
  • Does sociology provide personal and larger social insight
  • Be aware of the three-strike issue
  • Know which factors you can control
  • larger social factors that have historically contributed to these patterns
  • brief spike in divorce after World War II
  • It was the highest rate of marriages, highest rate of births (The Baby Boom began in 1946
  • ivorce rates surged in 1946 as all the soldiers returned home having been changed by the trauma, isolation from their families,  and challenges of the war
  • Divorces tended to follow wars
  • Divorces continue to be high during economic prosperity
  • ecline during economic hardships.
  • abundance of single women
  • urban
  • Scientists have never identified a “cause” for divorce.  But, they have clearly identified risk factors.
  • enslaved to those force
  • They still impact you, and you can follow Mill’s ideas and manage as best you can within your power concerning consequences of these forces
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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  • adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
Daryl Bambic

Cultural Anthropology/Introduction - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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introduction

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  • nthropology is holistic[[1]], comparative, field based, and evolutionary.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      As a social science, anthropology is the ultimate interdisciplinary 'science'.  It is holistic and comparative.  
  • five sub-disciplines
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  • Archeology: The study and interpretation of ancient humans, their history and culture, through examination of the artifacts and remains they left behind
  • Cultural Anthropology:(also: sociocultural anthropology, social anthropology, or ethnology) studies the different cultures of humans and how those cultures are shaped or shape the world around them
  • Biological Anthropology
  • using genetics, evolution, human ancestry, primates, and the ability to adapt.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      Biological anthropology is the discipline that uses Darwin's theory of evolution to study man, primates and all of life.
  • Linguistic Anthropology: examines human languages
  • pplied anthropology is simply the practice of applying anthropological theory and or methods from any of the fields of Anthropology to solve human problems
  • Culture is:
  • Learned
  • Patterned
  • •Shared
  • •Adaptive
  • Symbolic
  • At its most basic level, the difference between Culture and culture is in the way they are defined. C
  • lture with a capital C refers to the ability of the human species to absorb and imitate patterned and symbolic ideas that ultimately further their survival
  • Familial culture
  • Every family is different, and every family has its own culture
  • icro or Subculture
  • distinct groups within a larger group that share some sort of common trait, activity or language that ties them together and or differentiates them from the larger group
  • clique
  • Mexican-Americans
  • micro-culture would be the Japanese hip hop
  • Cultural universals
  • Claude Levi-Strauss
  • gender roles, the incest taboo, religious and healing ritual, mythology, marriage, language, art, dance, music, cooking, games, jokes, sports, birth and death
  • tual ceremonies
  • f cultural relativism deny the existence or reduce the importance of cultural universals
  • Language and cognition
  • Society
  • Myth, Ritual, and aesthetics
  • Technology
  • This problem of right and wrong in terms of crossing cultural lines is a big one.
  • intrinsic cultural distinctions that are meaningful to the members of a given society, often considered to be an 'insider’s' perspective.
  • reate bias o
  • Enculturation
  • This process is the way in which we obtain and transmit culture.
  • In the !Kung Bushman tribe they look down upon people who think highly of themselves and who are arrogant. To avoid these characteristics, each child was raised to put down and mock others when they do things such as hunting and other activities.
  • Cultural Transmission
  • Symbols and Culture
  • Symbols are the basis of culture. A symbol is an object, word, or action that stands for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally defined
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Cultural Relativism
  • Ethnography
  • Deconstructing Race and Racism
  • Race was created long ago as a tool to separate humans
  • Deconstructing the social concept of race has been a major interest of Cultural Anthropology at least since Franz Boas's work on race and immigration in the early 1900's.
  • Race is not biological but it's supposed to be a way to classify biological differences by grouping people according to different characteristics that they have
  • There is no biological part of race. It is strictly a concept created by humans to try to better understand differences between us
  • Technology
Daryl Bambic

Wegener and Continental Drift Theory - 0 views

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Continentaldrift

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  • Survival of the fittest" gave an ethical dimension to the no-holds barred capitalism of the late nineteenth century.
  • ppropriated elements of evolution by natural selection to justify the ruthless business practices of his time
  • Darwin, was the ultimate insider
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  • Erasmus, was an early student of evolution and his half-cousin, Francis Galton, was a noted statistician who was considered the father of eugenics.
  • o worries about money
  • connections in the scientific world
  • philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
  • famous biologist, Thomas Huxle
  • But fact and reason alone cannot explain the different reactions to new hypotheses and theories we see in the examples above.
  • faith that future scientists will address the shortcomings in the initial theories.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 23 Sep 13
       
      When the facts don't neatly fit the theory, scientists have faith that time, discovery and the hard work of others will eventually prove the theory to be true.  Theories are not always neat equations where all variables are explained, accounted for and even understood. We see this with both Darwin and Wegener.
  • Being German wasn't Wegener's only problem; the arguments he used to support his hypothesis crossed into disciplines that were not his specialty.
  • Darwin's theory quickly came to dominate. Within 5 years, Oxford University was using a biology textbook that discussed biology in the context of evolution by natural selection.
  • At Oxford, evolution by natural selection had gone from hypothesis to a priori
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 23 Sep 13
       
      A priori means that something is accepted as true, knowledge that is known without having to investigate it.  We use reason and deduction to know that X is true, so it is a priori.
  • Wegener did not have an explanation for how continental drift could have occurred
  • little challenge until the 1960's.
  • he drew from the fields of geology, geography, biology and paleontolog
  • coal deposits, commonly associated with tropical climates, would be found near the North Pole and why the plains of Africa would show evidence of glaciation.
  • A radical new view on their discipline could be a threat to their own authority.
  • "If we are to believe in Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the past 70 years and start all over again."
  • The authorities in the various disciplines attacked him as an interloper that did not fully grasp their own subject.
  • The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped
  • The world had to wait until the 1960's for a wide discussion of the Continental Drift Theory to be restarted.
  • Alfred Wegener is one modern scientist amongst many that demonstrate that new ideas threaten the establishment, regardless of the century.
  • ontinental Drift Theory through the first few decades of the twentieth century.
  • continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart.
Marie-Lise Pagé

Deep Thoughts on What Makes Humans Special | LiveScience - 1 views

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humans mind unique

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  • share characteristics with humans such as politically motivated aggression, empathy and culture, but humans take them to a level without parallel among animals
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
       
      Like we saw in the video Ape Genius
  • ey fall short of humans when considering secondary theory of mind
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  • uch capabilities allow humans to enjoy delicious stories with layers of intrigue and gossip,
  • humans can commonly extend empathy over time and space
  • exceptions as a mental illness that afflicts humans and animals alike.
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers ritualistically act out the same behavior again and again.
  • apolsky suggested two reasons not to worry
  • ne of the few differences between humans and chimps comes from the amount of cell division for brain cells
  • human behaviors stand out by reaching levels of complexity unseen in any other part of the animal world, according to a neurobiologist
  • What makes humans special comes in no small part from the sheer quantity of available brain power – at least 300,000 brain cells for each neuron in a fruit fly brain.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
     
    This website has a lot of information to help me in my project because it really helps me understand what makes the human mind unique. I also like that it compares to the Apes. It expalins the diffrences between the Apes and us. It also explains what makes us Human. However, it has a lot of scientific vocabulary that's hard to understand.
Chrissy Le

Animal Minds - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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intelligence communication animals brain language evolution science consciousness

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  • ublished: March 2008
  • By Virginia Morell
  • Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University
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  • She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language.
  • They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree.
  • many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought.
  • controversial.
  • How, then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable of thinking—that it is able to acquire information about the world and act on it?
  • Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others' motives, imitating others, and being creative.
  • chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by watching an experienced fish perform the task.
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      Reminds me of the video we had to watch for homework, very interesting, and great information for my TFAD project!
  • Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have been taught to use sign language and symbols to communicate with us, often with impressive results.
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  • © 2011 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
Talya Freidman

Chimps R Us- Frontiers Profile: Jane Goodall - 1 views

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chimps humans Jane+Goodall anthropology Science

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  • it's qui
  • te an okay subject for study for a Ph.D.
  • e an okay subject for study for a Ph.D.
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  • still a hard core of people who are very resistant
  • doing invasive experiments on animals
  • made a difference with the way the world views chimpanzees
  • Has it made a difference in the way scientists view them
  • It's much better to cling to the old ideas that animals are just little machines and they have stimulus and response
  • It's a communication
  • sophisticated brains
  • haven't during evolution developed a sophisticated spoken language
  • not capable of planning the distant future
  • can't
  • discuss an idea
  • communication is very immediate
  • Mike learned to use empty kerosene cans because he was very low ranking
  • He accidentally hit an empty 4-gallon kerosene can and noticed that other chimps ran away
  • Within 4 months, he'd risen to the top
  • never saw him fight
  • Only Mike capitalized on that and developed the technique and won.
  • Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
     
    This is an interview where Jane Goodall explains and discusses her discoveries.
Lauren Ganze

Neanderthals, Humans Interbred-First Solid DNA Evidence - 1 views

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Neanderthal Human relations DNA shared anthropology evolution

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    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 14 Dec 11
       
      did they disappear solely because of other hominid species (humans)?
  • The results showed that Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 percent identical to modern human DNA, versus, for example, 98.8 percent for modern humans and chimps, according to the study.
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  • Neanderthals, like modern humans, are thought to have arisen on the continent.
  • Though no fossil evidence has been found for Neanderthals and modern humans coexisting in Africa,
  • interbreeding occurred just after our species had left Africa
  • Neanderthals, the study team says, probably mixed with early Homo sapiens just after they'd left Africa but before Homo sapiens split into different ethnic groups and scattered around the globe.
  • 60,000 years ago
Jake Izenberg

New media and culture | TAB - 1 views

www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/...ab074.html

Culture and New Media

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  • The goal as stated was to show »current and future impacts of the development of new media on the concept of culture, cultural policy, the cultural industry and cultural activities
  • sociological focus
  • understanding of the media
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  • socio-cultural
  • two levels
  • first level
  • second level
  • media are understood as the socio-technical and cultural practices of distributing and storing information which are used to shape communication and interaction and so help determine collective perception and experience in the everyday world
  • New Media« are media based technically on digitalisation, miniaturisation, data compression, networking and convergence.
  • transform the modes of communication in a way which departs from the established familiar forms of interpersonal communication, either direct or via media.
  • overarching trends
  • we use the findings of the unique series of international surveys of mass communication
  • current media development
  • Competition through supplementation is increasingly turning into predatory competition for increasingly scarce time budgets
  • (PCs with multimedia capability, Internet, mobile radio
  • different levels of Internet use
  • cultural content
  • newspaper reading
  • TV viewing
  • groups and humanity as a whole
  • Changes in readership and reading behaviour
  • dramatic changes in reading strategies
  • reading motivation
  • This threatens to erode a cultural technique which is the basis not only for reading books and newspapers but also for using the New Media.
  • Trends in scientific concepts of culture
  • example
  • necessary to look at historical processes of change in the understanding of culture
  • social sciences
  • In future we can in any case expect greater individualisation and differentiation in media use patterns, the »average user« will ultimately become a construct remote from reality.
  • almost general expansion of the concept of culture
  • a renewed interest in the culture of the individual
  • between cultural and media development
  • Recently the history of concepts of culture in social sciences
  • philosophical
  • overcoming colonialism
  • This makes cross-border movements, interculturalism and hybridisation more important for cultural theory; media development, transnational cultural relationships, intercultural exchange and migration become even more important topics for research.
  • Cultural development, New Media and media culture
  • the media is mostly given outstanding and still growing cultural significance
  • recent debates
  • finally the increase in the importance for the understanding of culture of new (or what are perceived as new) cultural communities, groups and contexts.
  • communications technologies
  • the current status of the concept of culture in science and politics is not a fashionable phenomenon, but rather »evidence of a significant social development«, a »development from the domination of things to a domination of knowledge«
  • There is disagreement inter alia about whether cultural development is tending to blend with media development (or already has blended with it) and whether cultural theory should accordingly be primarily (or even exclusively) pursued in terms of media cultural theory
  • Media markets: an overview
  • Cultural globalisation and the New Media
  • In dealing with the interactions between the change in concepts of culture and recent media development, the mutually impacting trends of individualisation and cultural globalisation become issues leading to further depths. Both issues are extremely important for the current debate on media development.
  • individualisation« or »personalisation
  • media services with a customised nature
  • sociological theories of individualisation as such. Besides socio-structural individualisation promoted inter alia by decoupling class membership and consumption, processes like isolation/privatisation and autonomisation – in other words, competent coping with media-based growth in cultural options for choice and action – should be noted (A. Honneth)
  • economic globalisation
  • cultural globalisation
  • show on the one hand that the development of the New Media has aroused (often vague-seeming) fears and hopes, while euphoria over technology and pessimism over culture are relatively evenly divided between the political and social trends. Conversely, there is also the tendency in these debates to pursue older scientific arguments and view the development of the New Media in the context of specific media-historical, social-theoretical or philosophical considerations.
  • unanimous agreement that the New Media, and particularly the Internet, are of central importance
  • The current crisis in traditional concepts of culture is apparently closely connected with the recent development in the media, as the New Media change the cultural significance of physical proximity and separation
  • Connected individuals – according to a widespread view – grow through interactive and communicative actions beyond the limits of local communities and national societies, and are able to participate in transnational cultural exchanges and make themselves felt as an individual, a member of a group or of an international movement.
  • economic and cultural globalisation are highly controversial issues in political and scientific debate
  • Content
  • Communication channels
  • Terminals and associated components
  • Digital interactive TV
  • Mobile radio and UMTS
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
       
      Goog information 
  • The three basic studies carried out for TAB
  • Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
     
    teacher for 5 minutes   This is a great article for my topic and has a lot of information that is useful for me. There are examples, studies and more. The lay out is well done and it is organized well. 
Chrissy Le

Animal cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Animal Consciousness Communication Cognition Language Science

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  • artificial language comprehension in the bottlenosed dolphin using cognitive research methods
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      It's very interesting to think of animals being able to communicate between each other through various ways whether it be by speech, appearance, smell, etc.
  • Animal cognition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • study of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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  • comparative psychology,
  • animal intelligence
  • mostly concerns mammals, especially primates, cetaceans, and elephants, as well as dogs, cats, and rodents.
  • and fish,
  • began in the late 1950s
  • John Lilly
  • other animals do have minds and that humans should approach the study of their cognition accordingly.
  • bottlenosed dolphins
  • particularly monkeys
  • Spatial cognition
  • The ability to properly navigate and search through the environment is a critical task for many animals.
  • Research in 2007 shows that chimpanzees in the Fongoli savannah sharpen sticks to use as spears when hunting, considered the first evidence of systematic use of weapons in a species other than humans.
  • Language
  • The modeling of human language in animals is known as animal language research.
  • Consciousness
  • The sense in which animals can be said to have consciousness or a self-concept has been hotly debated; it is often referred to as the debate over animal minds.
  • It has been suggested that metacognition in some animals provides some evidence for cognitive self-awareness.[11] The great apes, dolphins, and rhesus monkeys have demonstrated the ability to monitor their own mental states and use an "I don't know" response to avoid answering difficult questions. These species might also be aware of the strength of their memories.
  • This page was last modified on 26 November 2011 at 11:42.
  • Daryl Bambic on 11 Dec 11
     
    Indeed it is an interesting topic. Please don't bookmark wikipedia articles but maybe check out one of their references on the topic. You could also use some of the names of the anthropologists working in this field that we learned about. Susan Savage Rumbage was one who was featured in the documentary 'Ape Genius' and who worked with Kanzi.
Marie-Lise Pagé

Edge: ARE HUMAN BRAINS UNIQUE? By Michael Gazzaniga - 2 views

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  • Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
  • a simple sentiment yet so full of human complexity. Other apes don't have that sentiment.
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      Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
       
      It really shows us how something can be so normal to us when, in fact, it is complex and it's unique to us.
  • We did evolve and we are what we are through the forces of natural selection.
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  • All of us solve problems effortlessly and routinely.
  • We want to see our dogs charm us, appeal to our emotions, imagine they too can suffer and have pity, love and hate and all the rest
  • our brain parts can be replaced with silicon parts
  • Thousands of scientists and philosophers over hundreds of years have either recognized this uniqueness of ours or have denied it
  • Even though we have all of these connections with the biologic world from which we came, and we have in some instances similar mental structures, we are hugely different.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
     
    This is an interview with Micheal Gazzaniga who is one of the world's  leading neuroscientists. He really explains some of the unique features of our brains.
mariakanarakis

When Do People ¬Not Protest Unfairness? The Case of Skin Color Discrimination... - 1 views

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  • This is the phenomenon of “colorism” – “the tendency to perceive or behave toward members of a racial category based on the lightness or darkness of their skin tone”
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 13 Dec 11
       
      Colorism: (Definition) It is discrimination towards the more dark pigmented people, which excludes them from social and daily activities. Colorism is found all around the world since people have spread and this is prejudice against the darker skinned humans. 
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      This website separates skin discrimination into different sectors so we can see that there's isn't only one place that the discrimination is affecting us. All of the examples which are highlighted in blue are a tool that helps us really understand what this professor is talking about. 
  • lighter-skinned black soldiers in the Union Army of the Civil War were, compared with darker-skinned soldiers, more likely to be skilled workers rather than field hands before entering the service
  • however, is that how people behave and are treated is affected not only by the nominal category of race, but also by the ordinal category of multiple shades of skin tone
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  • This is the
  • Colorism can occur within one’s own community, or across racial and ethnic groups
  • any other “racial” group.
  •  Skin Color Hierarchy in History
  • Our more systematic historical research shows that the importance of skin color on life chances dates back at least to the nineteenth century.
  • it may emerge as an indirect effect of the person’s ability to take advantage of the higher social status that has accrued over many generations to light-skinned African-Americans
  • Skin Color, Education, and Income
  • skin tone within a given race or ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic outcomes.
  • over a quarter of African Americans had earned college degrees.  But light-skinned blacks were more likely to have a college degree than were medium- or dark-skinned blacks; conversely, dark- and medium-skinned members were less likely to have completed high school.
  • In a year when blacks’ averaged about ten years of schooling, there is a gap of almost two years between the schooling of the darkest and lightest African Americans.  Dark-skinned blacks earned less than seven tenths as much as light-skinned blacks – during a year in which black families’ mean income was just over six tenths of that of white families.
  • Being dark-skinned has psychological as well as economic, educational, and temporal costs.
  • “colorism” may be a direct response to the behavior of or, more likely, the appearance of a person standing before the potential employer, judge, or teacher.
  • people who suffer from discrimination may not protest it because they are unaware of their unfair treatment, because they perceive no alternatives, or because they see no means of effective protest. 
  • Light-skinned blacks tend to come from families with relatively high status on these dimensions, so skin tone affects educational attainment indirectly.
  • light- and medium-skinned blacks received shorter sentences for all crimes than the darkest category of blacks.  In every case except property crimes [i.e. for drug, personal, and miscellaneous crimes], the darkest group of blacks received higher sentences, on average, than whites
  • sentences are 2 percent shorter for light-skinned blacks compared with whites, 4 percent longer for medium-skinned blacks, and 2 percent longer for dark-skinned blacks. Those differences seem small, but 4 percent of a 2,560 day sentence (the average length for whites) is over three months of prison time.
  • Skin Color and Political Attitudes or Behaviors:
  • light-skinned African Americans are relatively advantaged in the social and economic arenas,
  • they have a similar advantage as voters and political actors, and that dark-skinned blacks perceive more discrimination.
  • Light-skinned blacks may be slightly more likely to perceive discrimination against other members of their race, and they are a little more likely to participate politically.
  • So why isn’t colorism an issue around which blacks organize politically?
  • What’s the Matter with Kansas?
  • Unenlightened Self-Interest:
  • Public opinion in this instance was ill informed, insensitive to some of the most important implications of the tax cuts, and largely disconnected from
  • a variety of relevant values and material interests
  • light-skinned blacks as roughly analogous to middle-class Americans – certainly not at the top of the distribution, but enjoying enough benefits from the unfair structure that they would be hesitant to disrupt it too much.
  • he implication is that dark-skinned blacks ought to perceive that they are doubly maltreated, that skin color hierarchy is just as unfair as the racial hierarchy within which it nests, and that protest is warranted. 
  • We vote our values; why should we be surprised if they vote theirs?
  • the task is to understand their values on their own terms.
  • Applying this logic to the case of skin color discrimination yields several hypotheses.  Perhaps dark-skinned blacks are aware of their doubly unfair treatment, but choose to ignore it because they too care more about some other political value, such as racial solidarity or individual autonomy.
  • Similarly, light-skinned African Americans may recognize,
  • that “for generations of black people, color and class have been inexorably tied together,” but they too care more about racial solidarity than about either taking advantage of or fighting this internal division. 
  • in short, one form of unfairness may be worth accepting or ignoring publicly for the sake of fighting another, or simply pursuing some unrelated goal.
  • The deeply religious, in short, vote their values, not their interests.
  • Andrea Campbell shows that the elderly mobilize to act jointly on behalf of social security, to the benefit of most but at the expense of the poorest (
  • At the turn of the twentieth century, both black and white media frequently used “mulatto” (and sometimes “quadroon” and “octoroon”) – sometimes favorably, sometimes unfavorably, but to a surprising degree simply as a common and unremarkable descriptor.
  • those descriptors were never used or were terms of opprobrium or shock.
  • one can explain the lack of collective attention to the unfairness of skin tone discrimination by pointing to the dissemination of and allegiance to other, apparently stronger values.
  • Racial nationalists have traditionally been hostile to black feminists or black Marxists who seek to draw attention to unfair practices within the black community
  • they are similarly hostile to any discussion of skin color differentiation because it appears to be a strategy of “divide and conquer.
Daryl Bambic

Mike Morwood: Archaeologist whose 'hobbit' discovery sparked fresh debate on human evol... - 0 views

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  • far from being the linear narrative of successive waves of colonisation out of Africa, as once thought, the process was, in fact, one with numerous twists and turns involving many different species.
  • among the most outstanding discoveries in paleoanthropology in over half a century.
  • because the cave also unearthed sophisticated stone tools similar to others found around the world in Homo erectus sites
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  • Flores tools were tiny, the right size for people of only 3ft tall with a brain the size of a chimp or grapefruit
  • Remarkably, the skull was found in a layer of sediments dating back only 18,000 years, long after the Neanderthals had vanished from the face of the Earth, having lost the evolutionary battle to Homo sapiens, the sole human species on Earth by then. This had huge ramifications for the varying theories of human evolution.
  • it could have been a descendant of Homo erectus that arrived early on Flores, perhaps using boats, and which, becoming stranded, evolved its petite size as an adaptation to the limited food supply available.
  • They also proposed the unimaginable, that Homo floresiensis lived contemporaneously on Flores with Homo sapiens.
  • Detractors
  • isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
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