You can specify conditions of storing and accessing cookies in your browser, Reflection on understanding culture society and politics, To which game the word googly is associated with. In her article, Pedersen importantly contributes to the on-going development of a sociology of democracy by revisiting the work of John Dewey in an original way. Im sure you can imagine that as a freshman in High School I received my first real rude awakening. Their four centuries of deeply ingrained Catholic culture were discarded within a few years once they deemed their class interests to be at stake. According to this understanding of culture, some countries are more civilized than others, and some people are therefore more cultured than others. Eventually we get female political leaders, but of what stripe? Your email address will not be published. The capitalist rulers know thisand so should we. REFLECTION UCSP.docx - REFLECTION PAPER FOR UNDERSTANDING CULTURE According to Pedersen, Deweys view of democracy emphasises the role of public officers as representatives of the public interest, but equally stresses the role of citizens as representing public matters by means of political participation and engagement. I heard someone explain the poor performance of the Mexican army, in the storm rescue operations in Acapulco in October 1997, as emblematic of a lackadaisical Mexican way of handling things: Its in their culture, you see; everything is maana maana with those people. In other words, politics, policy-making, and policy implementation are deeply and essentially intertwined with modern society, which in its various and concrete manifestations includes a range of highly diversified actors and interests, including private as well as publicly active individuals, employed and job-seeking people, families with both parents working, capitalist entrepreneurs, professionals but equally collective actors such as protest movements, non-governmental organisations, civic associations, and so on. For product concerns and support, please email customercare@vibalgroup.com. This division forces the American nation to steadily suffer from sickening political controversy. Then, in the late 1970s, after many Catholic clergy proved friendly to liberation theology, these same elites discarded their Catholicism and joined Protestant fundamentalist denominations that espoused a more comfortably reactionary line. Questions of legitimacy, imaginaries, and practices are questions that can only be responded to with cultural answers. To be sure, after centuries in which indigenous cultures have been trampled underfoot by colonizers, we need to be acutely aware of the baneful effects of cultural imperialism and of the oppressive intolerance manifested toward diverse ethnic cultures within our own society. Remember that we all are a part of this country like a family. It is a fact that society and culture are interrelated and interdependent concepts. In academic circles, postmodernist theorists offer their own variety of cultural relativism. There is a limit to how many lies people will swallow about the reality they are experiencing.