For the majority of the week, I was unable to
fully understand the ideas that C.P Snow brought to the world with
his "Two Cultures" lecture. But once I watched the interview
with Steven Pinker , I completely understood it. He gave an example of
music being a " Third culture" by saying an art such as music can be
enlightened by the understanding of auditory perception. I've been loving music
my entire life so being able to hear this example really helped me out
with this unit.
C.P Snow talked about Two different cultures being
completely different and not intervening with one another at all. This is
currently present on the campus of UCLA. The Campus split into two different
areas, South campus being for sciences and North for Humanities. Professor
Vensa also mentioned this in the lecture video and it's clearly present.
Depending on your major, you might have all your classes on North campus and
you may never go to South campus while getting your education here unless it's
for a G.E.
Map of North and South Campus at UCLA
Years after C.P Snow brought forth the idea of two cultures,
the idea of a third culture came about. I want to be a sociology major and I
feel the third culture can be sociology because it's a social science.
Sociology is the study of social behavior and uses various methods
of investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge
about social order. I feel this brings together the two different
cultures C.P Snow was referring too which would make it a third culture.
A picture of how many jobs sociology can provide
http://cdn1.theodysseyonline.com/files/2016/02/21/635916954394254622322839946_sociology.jpgMy computer froze and I was unable to finish my citation.
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