Organicism: The Root Metaphor

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective focused on the meaning people associate to objects, events and

Emerging out of the Chicago School in the 1920, symbolic interactionism is a theory that looks at the concrete daily life of individuals and how these individuals shape society as opposed to society being imposed upon them; a direct counter-argument to positivism. The major focus of symbolic interactionism in on the subjective meanings that individuals assign to objects, events, and behaviors. Based on this, society is said to be created as a result of human interpretation.

One of the most talked about topics is the metaphysical component. In which one sees the natural and sees how things work even when we are children. For example, imagine a dog, a cat, and a kangaroo in television and we set a group in our mind that tells that that these are in the category of animals, and successively other things as well. In my field of study, it’s in extreme importance to set the idea that what we

Ecosystem: According to our text, “The exosystem refers to the external relationships in which a child is influenced indirectly. Within this system, a child’s indirect contact can include culture, community, and society.” For example if a child’s family was to have been pounce on by a natural disaster and losing most of the family’s life necessities then ultimately all the pressure and disconformities would eventually trickle down to the child. Even though he was not directly involved in the onslaught, his life will ultimately be effected as the family struggles to survive.

In the book, Botany of desire, chapter 2, Michael Pollan describes the relationship between humans and tulips in 17th century. At the beginning of the chapter, Michael introduces the tulips and then, he start talking about the big event happened in Dutch. It is the most typical case of bubble economy, and it made a lot of impact.

A theme of them is that all the example of what happens after a discarded dream is that does not simply vanish, but undergoes an evolution.

This description of how order to an end comes about in a thing that sounds sensible, but when one tries to apply it to the origin of living things the alternative explanation of chance presents itself. The

Most issues on a farm return to the issue of keeping up appearances. (Smiley p.199)

The ecological theory was created by Urie Bronfenbrenner to explain the development of children. According to Bronfenbrenner, everything that is in a child’s environment effects the way that child grows and develops. This theory helps us understand why we may behave differently in the presence of family and friend than school and work. The ecological theory is broken down into four levels: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and the chronosystem. Microsystems. The microsystem is the environment filled with people who have direct contact with you. The mesosystem is involves the relations between the microsystem and the individual. The exosystem is the layer in which a child does not function directly. The macrosystem is the layer that involves a child’s cultural patterns, values, beliefs and ideas. Lastly, the chronosystem addresses the change over a

In 1983 Jerry Fodor opened the introduction to his new research of “Modularity of mind” with the phrase; “Behavior is organized, but the organization of behavior is merely derivative”. This meaning that behaviors are simply imitations, never original nor created. Fodor created a theory of how the mind was structured and how would perform. He studied the architecture of mind in modules; a term that will describe that the mind had different specific structures that had precise purposes. Jesse J. Prinz just like Fodor was a philosopher who was in opposition of the “Modularity of the mind” theory. This essay will have as a purpose to create an argument on the explanation and disagreement that Prinz wrote cluster by cluster against the theory “Modularity of mind” in an article called “Is the mind really modular?”

This theory focused on three components which are as followed; the first one is individual elements of consciousness, second is how they organized into more complex experiences, and third is how these mental phenomena correlated with physical events.

The Life-Form structure is true to its name in that it seems to be comparing the characteristics of this organizational structure to those of a life form “with the capability to think and be in the world.” Stanford gives four specific characteristics of this organizational structure of which I would like to expand upon two of them: Life-Form structures “continuously recreate themselves” and “learn to tap into a larger field to guide them toward what is healthy for the whole.”

they also partake of a dreamlike quality which aligns them with a host of other magical realist devices and motifs" (Theim 237). This device is also similar to Weiskel's third phase of the sublime, the reactive phase (qtd in Sandner 52). During this time, "the mind recovers the balance of outer and inner by constituting a fresh relation between itself and the object" (qtd. in Sandner 52).

PE The very actions that brings the logical form of a judgment to concepts also brings a transcendental content into the understanding’s representations.

Act and potency and their distinction are an important and fundamental theory in philosophy. It helps approach questions in metaphysics concerning substance, essence, and causation. In this essay, I will be using this theory of act and potency to show how the four causes and the theory relate to each other. Thus, the four causes: formal cause, material cause, efficient cause, and final cause are related to each other and can be explained through the theory and concepts of act and potency.