anyone..please help me with this question. any insights are welcome...

How is knowledge socially constructed, shaped by our cultural perceptions?
how is our knowledge derived from our social and cultural understandings??

hm......
my major, i don't know..i want to be happy. is that a "major" enough?? :).
thanks for your explanation..but then again i have to relate all my readings, so that makes it wayyy harder...
what is ur major?

may be you know me. its a small world.

time traveller,
u r right. i know you too. should i tell you where you know me from?

oh ho lfc,

you know every thing... good, i thought you were just a baby on the area.... ma po rahechhu ta..... anyway, glad to know.... please don't challange me further.

tala ko dui sabda lekhera bida hudai chhu.......

what i think is what you are calling "knowledge" is not the knowledge. If you think knowing "how to work together", "how to swim", "how to drink water" or "how to speak", or even "how to suck a mother's breast by a just-born baby", I have thothing to say. Definitely, society is the one which 'creates the environvent for exploring knowledge, a real knowledge, to which you are closer and closer every time, but you NEVER know"; it does NOT construct knowledge itself.

Did Einstein or his university or any funding agency CONSTRUCT the "Theory of Reletivity"? Of course, NOT. It is not up to society or scientist himself. It is not something which sabaile or Samaj le 'ho' bhandai ma "knowledge" banne.

My conclusion: "Not the knowledge, but the process of exploration of knowledge is constructed by society".

good luck with your assignment!

Thaha

My major's mathematics. Also Commerce. There. I'm Canuck by the way.
Where are you? Do you seriously know me?

eienstin did not create theory of relativity....but who is to say this is the absolute truth?????? we are taught theory of relativity because it is accepted by the scieintifc communicities, becasue it answers a lot of questions. but hundred years from today, Einstein II might come into the picutre, disprove theory of relativity and there you go, we have a new thoeryy that expalins even more things than the last one......that is how scientific theories have always worked. one comes, his theory gets accepted for a while, and then anohter r comes and his thoery answers even more qeustions and concners, we reject teh last one and accept this new one...it is a cycle..

tell me, how do u even KNOW teh theory of relativity is the absolute truthh???? how do you???? isnt' it because ur prof told u so? ur books told u so? or u checked it in the lab yourslef???? you might have. but think, could not your senese be lying to you? how do you KNOW that what you see and what u read is ultimate truth?????? how do u know for a fact that waht you see really existsss????
u never do, i mean, we never do. u eyes culd be lying to you, ur senses could be lying to yu, etc etc....do u see what i am saying. it is therfore never never never possible to just acccpet something as knowledge....label me crazy if you wish, i relize i am exteding the idea of knowledge to the far extreme, not practical for day to day life, but for the sake of argument.

time traveller,
yes i know you.
i am the receptionist at the vd clinic that you frequently vist...

first get out of Lakeforest college LFC. Receptionist toh dur ke baat hay. Lol...

Was there a need to say that? I was just wondering if I knew you. thats all, and as far as i can remember, I've never had to use VD clinic. I'm a pretty healthy individual- physically, socially and mentally.

Lfc,

please first read my posting where i mentioned "...you NEVER know". i agree with you in some sense as i was saying the same thing. scientific communities, or you may prefer to read "scientific society", has a great role in the construction of the process. It provided lots of things during formulation of idea by Einstein, and tested the idea so many times.
but, Einstein or his society did not construct that. he just tried to explain the truth or the phenomena. it may get refuted anytime in the future.

But, NO NO NO NO CONSTRUCTION, IT EXISTS THERE. IT'S REAL.

time traveller
i was joking.....i thought u had a sense of humor. i am sorry if i offneded u hai.

thah payen
i have so much more to say, tara i will be doing a diservice to myself i keep on arguing. exams siddhincha wednesday and i will refresh this thread and we can carry on from there .....hunchaa??

Well I do, but not when it comes to me like this!!!! Lol girl. don't say sorry. You're one of the more intellectual people I actually like talking with. I snooped around a bit and found out youre from 2003 galaxy batch? Well, I'm from 2002. HAH! Tit for tat i guess eh???? And you're in lakeforest college? lol never realized thats what your name stood for. Anyways yah, I've got some family there in Chi town. Mero thulummy ko chori and her family.
Maybe we can share some Galaxy experience. I peronally have TONS. So, in that case, YOU WILL know me if you see me or get to know my name. You probably know a few of my friends too.

no no, lfc. i am not argueing any more. you take care and good luck!

yep
i am from 2003 batch.....hm, sooooooo many memories.
again, after my exams are over, lets refresh all thsoe days, bitch about teachers and students and gita mam and who not....by the way, do u know what happened to prerna bhattachan? that girl that everyone was insanely in love with in those days? i mean puppy love.....

Oh, and ghut lawk wich yur eggjhams!!!

Here's a prayer for you:

सरस्‍वति जगन्‍माता, विणा-पुस्‍तक धारिणि,
मूँढताहरमे देवि विधां देही नमोस्‍तुते।

I clicked on your name tofind out if it actually meant LFC, because so far i thought it was IFC. lol....and then i saw your very frst post and realized you're from Galaxy. Hope you don't mind, I'm not a budhdi bhrasta manav.

and i promise, no more posts.

all right thah payena. whtever suits u. u take care too and since we aint arguing anymore, knowledge is constructed.....we have establisehd it. and u agree. now lets dismiss the conversatiaon. i will talk with you some other time.

Lfc, could not stop writing you. anyway, please don't repeat what you have already expressed here to the response of what i am going to say one more time :)

"Knowledge is NOT constructed and it is not constructed by any SOCIETY ever."

that is what you believe. and i am not saying u r wrong. it is something i dont beleive in. now that does not make me right or wrong and that does not make you right or wrong.....if knowledge was only one reality,one truth (becasue it cannot be construced by anyone) then can you tell me who is right? what is teh knowlege here that is a rleady established?
oh i forgot, u didn't want to argue. never mind.