When we talk about a social product we must define the word as best as we can. Social then means a learned product in which is related to a society or its organisation. A social product then is part of the construct of our brain and the indoctrination that comes with it. For us to succumb to a constructed “western” social group, we must be taught from a young age on the social relationships and norms of our society. The best way to teach these relationships are a debate in itself, however many have given their opinions on the matter. According to Berger and Luckmann because of our lazy nature as humans, for us to learn about social relationships we would need to be tediously taught things in a dumbed down fashion. However the question still
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These perceptions change as we pass from one group to another , as we do several times a day. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann raise an important point. They say societies concepts of reality and its relationships have to be impressed forcefully on each individual of the new generation, even if impressing is done in an unpleasant way e.g circumcision or western schooling. Since humans are often lazy and stupid these assumptions have to be simplified into easy formulas which can be learned, in ways which might routinise or even trivialize them, a process which can be seen in western …show more content…
This claim then agrees with the premise that music is essentially a social product. As for the idea that unpleasant methods of teachings is the only way to learn about relationships , is in fact false. Although emotions allow for learning to be better hence why Berger and Luckmman state that unpleasant things learn best. It should not mean that we should have to use unpleasant methods of teachings to arise those emotions, instead there are other methods such as 'musicking ' which arise just as much , if not more emotion. If what Beatson has to say makes sense then as mentioned before performance art of musicking is a more potent means of teaching about complex relationships rather than unpleasent methods and
These perceptions change as we pass from one group to another , as we do several times a day. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann raise an important point. They say societies concepts of reality and its relationships have to be impressed forcefully on each individual of the new generation, even if impressing is done in an unpleasant way e.g circumcision or western schooling. Since humans are often lazy and stupid these assumptions have to be simplified into easy formulas which can be learned, in ways which might routinise or even trivialize them, a process which can be seen in western …show more content…
This claim then agrees with the premise that music is essentially a social product. As for the idea that unpleasant methods of teachings is the only way to learn about relationships , is in fact false. Although emotions allow for learning to be better hence why Berger and Luckmman state that unpleasant things learn best. It should not mean that we should have to use unpleasant methods of teachings to arise those emotions, instead there are other methods such as 'musicking ' which arise just as much , if not more emotion. If what Beatson has to say makes sense then as mentioned before performance art of musicking is a more potent means of teaching about complex relationships rather than unpleasent methods and