Natural/artificial Environment
In order to enrich his life, man has used natural resources and in the process he has brought about many changes in the natural environment. Human settlements, roads, farmlands, dams and many other things have all developed through this. All these man made components are included in our cultural environment, Erving Goffman in particular stressing the deeply social nature of the individual environment.
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Famous quotes containing the words natural, artificial and/or environment:
“It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)