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In Vygotsky’s analysis, our “spontaneous concepts” begin in the concreteness of our day-to-day experiences, and it is from there that we begin to generalize and understand individual concepts as part of a larger system of concepts: we move from spontaneous, commonsense understandings of the world toward developing conscious awareness through more systematic, scientific understandings.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
In pre-partition, undivided Punjab, for example, between 1881 and 1941, the Hindu population dropped from 43.8 per cent to 29.1 per cent, due largely to the conversion of the subordinated castes to Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
Especially in mass society, where knowledge of others may be largely mediated by statistical generalities, there may be little understanding of lived need or interest across groups. A norm of political communication under these conditions is that __everyone should aim to enlarge their social understanding by learning about the specific experience and meanings attending other social locations.__
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
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