首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniqu
Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniqu
admin
2011-02-26
58
问题
Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what, any one person can ever evolve in individual actions, no matter how unusual. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his philosophical probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the common language of his family. When one seriously studies the social orders that have had the opportunity to develop autonomously, the figure becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities. Every child that is born into his group will share them with him, and no child born into one on the opposite side of the globe can ever achieve the thousandth part. There is no .social problem it is more obligatory upon us to understand than this of the role of custom. Until we are intelligent as to its laws and varieties, the main complicating facts of human life must remain unintelligible.
From John Dewey we can infer that ______.
选项
A、custom plays an important role in shaping the behavior of an individual
B、the behavior of an individual is not influenced by customs
C、the words of one’s baby talk take a great proportion in the vocabulary of one’s mother tongue
D、all the vocabulary of one’s mother tongue originates from one’s baby talk
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/oABO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
CustomerServiceCentreManagerWantedIt’snouseprovidingexcellentservicesifthepeoplethey’redesignedfordon’tkn
HEALTHSURE-foryouandyourfamilyManyhealthinsurancepoliciesonlycoverthepaymentsyouhavetomakewhenyougoint
AGROWINGRESTAURANTCHAINSimonDale,thechairmanandfounderoftheDalehouserestaurantchain,yesterdayannouncedplan
•Lookatthetableandchartsbelow.Theyshowsthemarketshare,annualturnoverandsharepricesforeightelectronicsmanufa
LittletonNewsUpdateTherateofunemploymentinLittleton,asmalltowninthesouthwestofEngland,hasreachedarecord
LittletonNewsUpdateTherateofunemploymentinLittleton,asmalltowninthesouthwestofEngland,hasreachedarecord
HowtosetpricesThemethodsadoptedinpricesettingarecrucialtoanybusiness.Whensettingprices,remembercostswill
Computersmayonedayturnnightintoday—withgoodold,naturalsunlight.Giantcomputer-controlledmirrors,thousandsoff
Potentiallyofferingapowerfulnewtoolagainstterrorism,researchershavefoundanovelwaytodetectdeception:intheliar’
随机试题
下列关于沙化土地封禁保护区的说法不正确的是()
方程yy"-y’2=y2的满足初始条件y(0)=1,y’(0)=0的特解为________.
阅读《诗经.氓》中的两节,回答文后问题。桑之未落,其叶沃若。于嗟鸠兮,无食桑葚;于嗟女兮,无与士耽。士之耽兮,犹可说也;女之耽兮,不可说也。桑之落矣,其黄而陨。自我徂尔,三岁食贫。淇水汤汤,渐车帷裳。女也不爽,士贰其行。士也罔极,二三其
药品质量标准收载于制剂通则与通用检测方法等收载于
下面哪一项不是门静脉高压的常见表现
农业区位理论认为,某个经营者能否在单位面积土地上获得最大利润,主要取决于()。
关于箱涵顶进施工技术的说法,错误的有()。
决策支持系统、管理信息系统、办公信息系统的处理对象分别是()。
TheprojectispartofUSPSefforts"tooperateafutureclassofvehicles"usingthelatesttechnologies.
A、Thereare15millionCatholicsinChina.B、ThenumberofProtestantsin1949was700,000.C、TherearefarmoreProtestantstha
最新回复
(
0
)