Understanding Culture: Enculturation and Social Dynamics

Understanding Culture and Society

Culture is the way of living of a society. It’s defined by:

  • Cultural knowledge: Information, skills, attitudes, beliefs, and other mental components of culture that people socially learn during enculturation.
  • Patterns of behavior: Within a single culture, the behavior most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations.

Culture is:

  • Shared: People within the same culture don’t have to explain their actions, reducing misunderstandings. Different
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Understanding Welfare State Theories: A Comparative Analysis

Understanding Welfare State Theories

Social Theory and the Resources of Power

Analyzes the impact of ideology on the development of the welfare state. This theory focuses on class mobilization and aims to measure the influence of ideology (of the elites, the mass of the ruling party, etc.) on the development of the welfare state, and other political variables such as the electoral system or the degree of corporatism.

Relevant explanatory variables include the location of the ruling party on the left-

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School Organization: Components and Traits

Components of the School as an Organization

A school, as an organization, comprises several key components:

  1. Objectives/Institutional Purposes:
    • Explicit or implicit guidelines that direct the organization’s activities.
    • Provide the rationale for the center.
    • Continuously reviewed and updated through democratic and participatory processes.
  2. Resources:
    • Assets available to the school to achieve its objectives.
    • Personal: Teachers, students, parents (protagonists of the educational process).
    • Materials: Building,
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Contemporary Philosophy: Science and Social Critique

Contemporary Philosophy

Philosophy developed from the nineteenth century onward is characterized by diverse, sometimes conflicting, currents and trends, but primarily by its critical and suspicious attitude. The dialogue with science and the technical implications for society and individuals will be a benchmark of contemporary philosophy. Science, like philosophy, also seeks rational explanations. However, philosophy is not a science or a similar type of knowledge, nor does it add to science. Why

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Pantomime and Body Expression in Education

The Art of Pantomime

Pantomime is a performance in which actors express actions, emotions, and characters through gestures, movements, and body attitudes, without using spoken words. It primarily consists of arm and hand movements. While mime focuses on purely emotional expression, pantomime conveys specific ideas. A complete performance often integrates three arts: singing (choir), music (orchestra), and mimicry (actor).

Advantages and Disadvantages of Pantomime

Advantages:

  • Uses a universal language.
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Wittgenstein’s Philosophy: Language, Logic, and Meaning

Initially, Wittgenstein believed language could perfectly represent thought. He thought language reached a limit, expressing all that was meaningful. Beyond that limit, language lost meaning and expressed nothing. He believed thought made language possible (Analytical Philosophy). Later, Wittgenstein criticized this initial position.

He questioned how we know the world has a logical structure that language expresses, and how language itself has that logical structure. Is using language to demonstrate

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