homem instrumentalizado ; homem instrumentalizador

English translation: instrumentalized man; instrumentalizer

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Portuguese term or phrase:	homem instrumentalizado ; homem instrumentalizador
English translation:	instrumentalized man; instrumentalizer
Entered by:	Renato Pereira

09:48 Sep 18, 2010

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

Portuguese term or phrase: homem instrumentalizado ; homem instrumentalizador

Hello everybody!

I have been translating the syllabus of many different university classes lately.
And tonight, when translating information about a class called "Estudo do Homem Contemporâneo", I came across these two terms (below) which I tried to translate into English but I am not really sure since I just found very few articles / texts on the internet using them:

- homem instrumentalizado = instrumentalized man
- homem instrumentalizador = instrumentalizing man

I'd like to know what you think about this translation and what you would suggest.

Thank you so much in advance :)

Renato Pereira KudoZ activity Questions: 62 (2 open) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 12 Canada
Local time: 00:50

instrumentalized man/instrumentalizer

Explanation:

CHAPTER V
Religion reveals the infinite dimensions of man's life. ... Contemporary philosophers of culture, sociologists and psychologists now remark the ... importance of personal feelings, opposes the instrumentalization of the human person. ...

www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-1/chapter_v.htm

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HISTORY FORUM: The Age of Enlightment in France and Europe ...
... Sartre, etc) as well as the contemporary structuralist and postmodernist .... instrumentalized man's view of Nature as its conqueror and manipulator. ...
www.iranian.com/.../history-forum-age-enlightment-france-an...

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continues to be relevant for our contemporary society in many ways. Let ... on college campuses today, the instrumentalization of the person for the ... “Man is older than the State and he holds the rights of providing ...
www.catholicsocialscientists.org/CSSR/Archival/2007/Murphy....

Iago And The Dialectic Of Enlightenment: Reason, Will And Desire ...
by H Grady - 1995 - Cited by 2 - Related articles
In effect, he is an instrumentalizer of existing ideology. Iago's incitement of Othello to murder is essentially a matter of convincing him to substitute ...
www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=500037119

http://books.google.com/books?id=O1_7BhY-Ov4C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA...

Selected response from:

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 03:50

Grading comment

Thank you very much again, Marlene, for your contribution and participation!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

humans as tool users

Jefferson D Boyles, ELS

4 +1

instrumentalized man/instrumentalizer

Marlene Curtis

3 +1

man the measurer

Nick Taylor

Humans dominated and dominating (meaning)

Phillip Berryman

man the tool-maker, man the tool-worker // the tool-making man, the tool-working man

Charles R. Castleberry

Summary of reference entries provided

As clear as mud!

kashew

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

33 mins confidence:

man the tool-maker, man the tool-worker // the tool-making man, the tool-working man

Explanation:

You got me curious. Hope it helps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolmaking

http://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-BR&client=gmail&rls=gm&q=...

Charles R. Castleberry
United States
Local time: 02:50
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hello Charles! Thank you very much for your contribution. Those are good options probably for the "homem instrumentalizador". The subject (Estudo do Homem Contemporâneo), however, makes me think of something more abstract than the actual tools, or capacity to make tools. More like the idea that the contemporary man has become an instrument himself and creates or uses things (objects, knowledge, organizations etc) or people as instruments. Well, at least that's my perception of the context in which those words are being used.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

humans as tool users

Explanation:
Charles' answer is fine, but this would be a more politically correct (i.e., non-sexist) translation.

Reference: http://www.columbia.edu/~sam2008/MEIH21.ppt
Reference: http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/mithril/history/topic1.ht...

Jefferson D Boyles, ELS
Local time: 04:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hello Jefferson! Thank you for your contribution. The original document literally doesn't say "ser humano" but "homem", which represents the same old sexist generalization common in romance languages. In general, I agree, the modern tendency would be to avoid sexism in academic activities, but that was an exception. As for the idea of "tool"' I think the idea behind the term in Portuguese is actually broader than that. I left a message for Charles at the end of his suggestion above. Please take a look!

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

man the measurer

Explanation:
This is a bit blurry but I think it refers to the way man can observe, measure, react and interact with what surrounds him in a scientific way, it is more than man the tool user.

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-09-18 11:21:42 GMT)
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If it is not this, (context) it could be "manipulated man" in the sense that man has to a certain degree been "robotised"! "( English UK) note: not the bionic man!

Example sentence(s):

In the course of time metrology has moved from man -the measure (utilizing a foot, hand or digit) to man - the measurer. The goal for measuring was a ...

Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9661729

Nick Taylor
Local time: 08:50
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hello Nick! Thank you for contributing with us here. Please take a look at the comment I left at the end of Charles suggestion above. I do believe the idea behind the term in Portuguese is really broader than "tool". I liked your translation here, but let's see if we could find more options.

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

instrumentalized man/instrumentalizer

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 03:50
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 96

Grading comment

Thank you very much again, Marlene, for your contribution and participation!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for the the option "instrumentalizer". I found "man, the user and instrumentalizer" (http://books.google.ca/books?id=O1_7BhY-Ov4C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=%22man,+the+instrumentalizer%22&source=bl&ots=Ua9dPkc0yR&sig=90zNJA6O76fltUJZ-GlH0rZUQps&hl=en&ei=AhubTL6mMof4swOFtO2yBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=instrumentalizer&f=false)

15 hrs confidence:

Humans dominated and dominating (meaning)

Explanation:
In a transcript I think we should not overinterpret. In this case it is a course on "Contemporary Man" (sic), presumably a cultural or philosophical study. I suspect is the idea is that since the rise of modern technology in the last two centuries we humans are often dominated by the very technology we (collectively) create. The critique goes back at least to Jacques Ellul, "The Technological Society." Actually instrumentalized and instrumentalizing might do it, but I'd suggest you give some thought to the notion of domination.

Phillip Berryman
Local time: 03:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hello Phillip! Thank you for your contribution here, and for suggesting a different perspective as well. It is valid and interesting, although I don't feel that would be necessarily the case in this context. As far as I know (and my experience in the field goes, as a former Sociology / Anthropology undergraduate student), when approaching "domination", the topics/discussions concerning this theme tend to be really explicit when referring to it, not using euphemisms. But I do appreciate your comment. Thank you very much! And I am posting some more information about the context surrounding these terms.

Reference comments

3 hrs

Reference: As clear as mud!

Reference information:
Instrumental genesis main concepts - Presentation Transcript

1. Instrumental genesis Amaury Daele (UNIFR)
2. The concept of instrument
* Instrument = mental use scheme + artefact (ex: use of hammer)
* Instrument = mediator between Actor and Activity, it changes the Activity (ex: a compressed air nailing machine)
* In return, the Actor may adapt the Instrument (ex: elastic cable to the ceiling)
* Example from Did@cTIC: Amaya template, change of the way to take notes in meetings, adaptation of and feedback to Amaya team
Instrument (material or symbolic) = use scheme + artefact Actor Object of Activity
3. Instrumentation/Instrumentalization
* “ Instrumental genesis”: progressive construction of the use of an artefact by an actor for a given purpose within a given environment.
* “ The instrumentation is the process through which the constraints and the potentialities of an artefact permanently condition the action of a subject in order to solve a given problem.” (Trouche, 2005, p. 274).
o Examples: Did@cTIC taking notes during meetings (Amaya template)
* “ The instrumentalization is a process of personalisation of the artefact; it is thus a process of differentiation of the artefacts through which each user appropriates the artefact. […] This process can be considered as a “defacement” or “hijacking” or as a contribution of the user to the process of design of the instrument.” (Trouche, 2005, pp. 274-275).

kashew
France
Native speaker of:

English

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