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Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our brains we feel to be uniquely
Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our brains we feel to be uniquely
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Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our 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 aberrant. 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 belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind certain stereotypes. John Dewey has said that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual, as against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family. There is no social problem it is more incumbent 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.
The study of custom can be profitable only after certain preliminary propositions have been accepted, and some of these propositions have been violently opposed. In the first place, any scientific study requires that there be no preferential weighting of one another of the items in the series it selects for its consideration. In all the less controversial fields, like the study of cacti or termites or the nature of nebulae, the necessary method of study is to group the relevant material and to take note of all possible variant forms and conditions. It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization.
Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people’s minds. It was necessary first to arrive at that degree of sophistication where we no longer set our own belief against our neighbor’s superstition. It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the same premises, let us say the supernatural, must be considered together, our own among the rest.
According to the author, our view of life and the world is largely the product of
选项
A、the inner workings of our own brains.
B、individual development and preference.
C、a mass of detailed behaviors.
D、the society we are born into.
答案
D
解析
作者认为,我们对生活和世界的看法在很大程度上是______的产物。[A]我们大脑内部的活动情况[B]个人的发展和偏好[C]大量细节性的习惯行为[D]我们出生的社会文章第一段最后一句指出:最重要的是,风俗在人的经历和信仰上所起的举足轻重的作用。将这句话反过来说,人的经历和信仰受风俗的影响很大,是社会的产物。所以正确答案为[D]。
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考研英语一
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