UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO

PEDAGOGY IN NATIONAL AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Student’s name: Rojas Joyce, Vilema Jefferson

Date: December 4th, 2020
Subject: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Deductive Theory
The deductive theory creates a new way to think about the origins and evolution of culture. It
is Darwinian because it states that different genes and behaviors have appeared randomly
according to specific criteria that are established by different living things. It means that
environmental parameters drove evolution. We can define life as a specific combination of
mass and energy arranged in a way that we can satisfy self-sustaining functions such as finding
resources to survive. Moreover, this theory allows us to hypothesize properties of the genome
that create a culture and to infer the conditions under which selection would favor the origins
of culture. Selection will favor genes that master the processes by which perceptions of physical
and material stimuli may be integrated with memory traces of previous experience. Genes
implement mechanisms that permit living things to keep track of changes in the world in which
they live, and so they will change their biological and behavioral state in the presence of
significant environmental changes. In other words, the selection prefers the organisms that can
change their ideas and behaviors. These living things have behavioral systems or also called
intelligence that helps them to rectify their mistakes quickly and at the same time, generates
culture. Theoretical deductions lead to the conclusion that organisms that create culture actively
participate in the creation of descendants that exhibit increasing cultural abilities and that
generate increases in productivity and more reliable flows of resources. Related to culture it
can be defined as a set of behavior and beliefs or a system of mental constructs. These systems
house a variety of information that cannot be inherited because there is nothing in the culture
that is completely transferred. We can imitate the behavior and the ideas can be adapted to our
needs, but they will be interpreted in a way that reflects each student's life story.