yes.

[kaigou]

Religion is a circumstance of birth for most people. We're indoctrinated into it and that's where we hang out for most of our lives, wallowing in and out of varying degrees of fanaticism for it. ... Yeah, people convert, but outside of countries where [there's] Freedom of Religion or something, [for] the most part, generically speaking, you are what your parents taught you to be.

killermuff rocks my world.

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[sintari.livejournal.com]

*nodnodnod* Yes - the only difference in our opinions is that I would lump what you call "Environment" into culture. And actually, sociologists and anthroplogists have a lot of little quibbles like that.

>_> We actually had a section in Anthropological Theory where we talking about how we ARE NOT sociologists! (And apparently sociologists keep braching over into our studies! How dare them!)

No matter how you cut it, the social sciences rock!

oh! And if you ever want to read a great book about the humanities, check out "Europe and the Peoples Without History" by Eric Wolf. It actually deals with the whole boundary between the social sciences and how we divide our knowledge base when we insist of indentifying our studies as anthropology, or sociology, or economics or political science instead of looking at all of this as part of the human condition. It's not really light reading, but it's one of those books that you're reading and going "I hate you because you are smarter than I will ever dream of being, Eric Wolf. Teach me all you know!"