Carel Faith M.

Andres

Paradigm in Sociology of Knowledge (Peter Burke)

1. Where is the existential basis (thesis) of mental productions located?

 Culture translation

2. What mental productions are being sociologically analyzed?

 Learning foreign culture is like learning foreign language.

3. How are mental productions related to the existential basis?

 They are related since they are both talks about culture adaptation and translation of culture
because of the globalization.

4. Why manifest and latent functions imputed to these existentially conditioned mental productions?

 Because of the culture exchange and history that they want to spread the information in Early
modern Europe.

5. When do the imputed relations of the existential base and knowledge obtain?

 From the historical thoughts and historical writing in the last generation has been the turn from
intellectual history to cultural history, from the history of ideas to the history of meanings.