And you can't capture the importance of the environment unless you recognize the interaction between social conditions and cultural conditions.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Understanding the environment requires analyzing how social and cultural conditions interact.
- In plain terms
- To understand the environment you have to look at social and cultural conditions together.
- What can you take from it?
- Analyze the interaction between social and cultural conditions to understand the environment.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you measure cultural and social interaction?
- Why is separating these conditions inadequate?
Another view
This is a general methodological claim without specifying how to measure these interactions.
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