VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [8] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 13:00:21 04/16/07 Mon
Author: Viviane
Subject: Re: Task One Group Four
In reply to: Aline Costa 's message, "Re: Task One Group Four" on 19:34:40 04/11/07 Wed

>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 (do not abbreviate) 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 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(Capital letter) 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 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.


In my opinion your introduction is the tunnel because it starts more general and gets more specific. Your thesis statement is “There’s a complex inter-relation between these two environments.” The environments are “Inside or outside the minds.” Since you are affirming that the inter-relation exists, I think that your thesis statement is debatable. You used appropriate transition signal. The developmental paragraphs are about separate the outside and the inside and social and cultural aspects, so they have different ideas. One of them has a quotation. I believe you could explain social and culture aspects in different paragraphs (if is possible). And finally the developmental paragraphs reflect your thesis statement. Following this, your conclusion is also related with the thesis statement and with the developmental paragraphs and do not have new information.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.