The Rich and the Poor in the “Two Cultures”

19754

C.P.Snow made a speech called “Two Cultures” in the Rede Lectures series in 1959. In this conference, he made a distinction between sciences –he implied natural sciences- and literary intellectuals and called this split as “Two Cultures”; opening this concept to a wider discussion in the scientific circles. In the speech, C.P.Snow dealt with the problem of similarity/distinction in methodology and subjects of humanities/social sciences and natural sciences both in method and subjects in a wide perspective. The IVth chapter of “Two Cultures” is entitled “the rich and the poor”. In this study, the C.P.Snow’s conception and proposals about the division between the rich and the poor at the end of 1950s, and the about the reasons of and the ways to overcome the problem are discussed from a critical point of view. It is also intended to observe the way in which the subject of richness and poverty is dealt with and what conceptual framework and solutions have been produced from a historical perspective from the 19th century then on.

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Two cultures , the rich and the poor , development and underdevelopment , progress , Cold War

Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences

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Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences