Week 11 holism

The article talks about the holism and there are three mini-cases about different cultures and the connection. I agreed with the statement that “technology in any society is intimately connected at many points with other cultural subsystems” and the connections are always there even in a different societies. As I learnt on the history class, the development of technology leads the changing of the social structure. And change in other field, such as social status, economy and lifestyle, will be followed. The situation is the same in the world. I think it is a good idea to use holism. Although the cultures are diverse, people can find the connections between them. Another thing is before people try to study a particular factor of a culture, they need to know more about other background. Otherwise, the study will be extremely difficult. Like people read a novel written by a foreign author. Although readers can understand the words, sometimes they can’t understand the meaning of the story because of lacking the knowledge of culture background.