How Knowledge and Information are Linked

While information refers to a set of data that may have been given some meaning by the technique of relational connection in the brain, knowledge can be taken to mean a precise and proper collection of such information in a manner that makes it useful to the carrier. The disparity between the two terminologies may be confusing, but in that form, the difference is clear. To add to the complexity, the issue of culture and language may add to the dilemma in trying to define the two terms. In most cases, language is often believed to have a significant effect on culture as well as knowledge acquisition. There is a significant relationship between knowledge, information, culture, and language. It is undoubtedly true that language is entwined in the cultural system and that it provides us with the right words that describe the world around us, thus permitting the verbalization of specific values readily. Anything that is valued in a given community can readily be determined with the use of understandable terms. Therefore, belonging to a given cultural community puts someone in a position of understanding why people act in a specific manner. By the same token, language has a differing structure that can emphasize and contribute to the worldview as well as cultural beliefs. For instance, in A Sense of Place , one factor that stands out about religious places is that clans are responsible for giving meaning to the nature of reverence due at each sacred site. Moreover, sacred places define the natives (page 205). Notably, it is these things that present themselves as information to a person, which is then engraved as knowledge. In any view of knowledge and information, they are linked as one has to acquire information before it becomes a piece of knowledge. In the same standpoint, cultural practices have a significant influence on knowledge acquisition. As a result, people develop a particular way of worldview as well as cultural beliefs. Language, in specific, offers us the choice of words that are useful in describing the world around us. 

References  

A Sense of Place. (n.d.). In  Native Science  (pp. 204-213).