Students at Sherman Institute, 1919. Courtesy Sherman Indian High School, Riverside CA.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Man and society

"The mastering of nature and the mastering of behavior are mutually linked, just as man's alteration of nature alters man's own nature" - Vygotsky
"Society is a human product. siociety is an objective reality. Man is a social product" -Berger
Both of these authors mention the necessary link between man and society, wither seen as an institution or behavior. In his essay Berger mentions an interesting thing that really called my attention: there is a paradox that man is capable of producing a world than he then experiences as something other than human product. I think that reason for human beings thinking this way is that we are always changing, so does society, therefore, new generations see the insitutios of past generations as something different from them.

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