Despite this he also notes that deficiencies exist within culture, and that stress is far too often paid to the relationship between idealized versions of culture.
Carrithers like many suggests that human beings have an innate tendency to mutually engage and mutually response, and that this propensity is due "to cognitive or intellectual, some of it emotional, but in any case human character and human experience exist only in and through people's relations with each other" (Carrithers, 1992:55; McNeil, 2002).
Conclusions/Analysis
Regardless of ones philosophy of culture or definition of society, one must acknowledge that man is ever changing and a creature that requires interaction and formation of complex relationships to survive. Society evolves in part as a result of the social interactions and relationships that man creates and forms during the course of a lifetime. Social organizations occur likewise as a result of human interaction and the means by which individuals within a given society organize their lives and establish some sort of order.
Most anthropologists acknowledge the relationship society has to social organization, directly linking the two factors in many different ways. From the many theories available regarding society and culture,...
Social organization arises from interactions and human relationships. Society and culture are more the product of social factors rather than environmental ones. The manner in which humans interact and organization their life is contingent upon their relationships.
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McNeil, D. (2002). "The Ethical Challenges of Development." SUM Center for Development and Environment, University of Oslo. September 5, 2002. 12, November 2004, from: http:www.iadb.org/etica/documentos/ar2_mcn_socia-i.htm
Robertson, a.F. (1996). "The development of meaning: Ontogeny and culture." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2(4), 591
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