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1. An introduction to "culture" (human history) as transforming (not abolishing) "nature" (physical ecology--from gravity to local weather and geographical features; biological constitution--from sexual reproduction to genetic peculiarities, aging and death).
   1. Transformation: from the individual vocal box and the sounds it can produce to a choir singing the music of a particular time for particular purposes.
   2. The scope of the concern for culture in the social sciences
   3. the definitions I work with
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3. A further introduction to technology as what human beings have made that they now depend upon to continue to live together "in the style to which they are now accustomed." For example:
1. the body as amplified (handicapped) by technology. For example speaking involves
   1. a transfer through voice (face/hands) ------------------> to ear (eyes) given certain conditions (see Jakobson's model of communication):
      1. distance (how far can the unamplified voice be heard?)
      2. physical conditions (how far can the unamplified voice be heard on a beach on a day of high wind and high waves?)
      3. amplification: from yelling to sign languages, flags, radio (how far can the amplified voice be heard given any number of conditions?)
2. the body as amplified (handicapped) by the institutionalization of technology
   1. what voices get amplified for what purposes (Holliwood and pleasure, "all the news fit to print");
   2. how is what is heard identified as?
4. Culture and success in attaining various positions within a system of differentiated rewards. The evolution of explanations of "success" and "failure in school as paradigmatic of failure/success in careers:
   1. as cultivated capacity of an individual(through socialization and schooling)
   2. as learned difference (codes and mismatches)
   3. as what has been made to count for particular persons (through history and institutionalization)