The imagined world made real : towards a natural science of culture

by H.C. Plotkin

Can the insights of science provide a proper understanding of human culture, or must the analysis of culture be left to the so-called human sciences - anthropology, psychology, or sociology?

Genres: Science

300 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

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[Adih Respati]

Plotkin argues that in the near future, abstract of social science will collaborate with the concrete natural science in figuring out what culture is (what social science can only hypothesizes, natural science will confirm). Plotkin's argument stems that where memory is an accumulated knowledge of an individual acquired during development, culture is accumulated knowledge of a species (an inter-species) acquired during development.