conceptual framework Flashcards
Culture
how we mediate relationships with the environments and each other
components
-Economic
-Social
-Political
-Philosophical-religious
Technology
Items, techniques and information that we use to directly interact with the environment
Social systems
How we organise our social interactions by defining roles and relationships
Kinship, political structure, exchange networks
Ideology
Belief and value systems of a society that are used to explain the world
Cosmology
Perception, description and classification of universe
what will be the end
what was the beginning
Religion
nature of the supernatural
Iconography
The ways in which aspects of the world, supernatural of human values conveyed in art
Five uses of symbols
- Establishing place
- Measurements
- Planning
- Social organisation and power
- Religion and cult
Establishing place
Marking and delimiting territories
Construct a perceived landscape, landscape is imbued with meaning
measurements
important for organising our relationships with the world
Planning
Allow us to think about and cope with the future world
to make and produce an artefact/feature
Essense vs existence
essence- defines the purpose
existence- existing in the world
essence is before
its existence
social organisation and power
- Regulate human relations with the other world, supernatural and transcendental - material representation of religious activities
