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Date Posted: 19:20:36 04/16/07 Mon
Author: Fabio Vione
Subject: Peer Editing to Aline - Group Four

Culture and Social life in Cognition

Culture and social life are part of the environment in which cognition is made, whereas many cognitive processes happen not only in individuals themselves, but in society as a whole. Therefore, it is not easy to determine the point in which cognition is inside or outside the minds: //there’s a complex inter-relation between these two environments.

One of the main problems in considering cognition as something that happens only inside individuals is to assign complex social characteristics to the mind itself. Thus, primitive societies would be a consequence of primitive minds while advanced societies a consequence of an advanced one. Separate the outside and the inside is to treat the cultural phenomena as a bunch of knowledge or data and not as a process, which is what they really are.

A way of viewing things that (Wvf) incorporates social and cultural aspects to the cognitive process of comprehension (??) can integrate the fact that there are many cognitive processes that happen in society and not exclusively inside individuals. According to Hutchins, “culture is a process, and the things that appear in definitions in form of lists are only the residue of this process”, this processes are instable and are always being constituted.

The cognition is essentially (Bw) situated and to study the cognitive phenomena without its social and cultural nature is to ignore the dynamic interrelation that is established between individuals in a specific situation.

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Great and well organized text Aline! I found difficult to distinguish the thesis statement and the conclusion from the rest of the text. Also the linking between some of the ideas weren't very clear for me, but both of the situations were maybe my fault.

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