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| - | # Two minds | + | ====== |
| - | ## Two minds | ||
| - | Ryan Schram\\ | + | ===== Two minds ===== |
| - | ANTH 2700: Key debates in anthropology | + | |
| + | Ryan Schram\\ | ||
| + | ANTH 2700: Key debates in anthropology\\ | ||
| ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au\\ | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au\\ | ||
| Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)\\ | Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)\\ | ||
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| Slides available at http:// | Slides available at http:// | ||
| - | ===== Welcome to ANTH 2700: The next step in studying anthropology ===== | + | ===== Welcome to ANTH 2700 ===== |
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| + | Welcome to class, and to Semester 1. | ||
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| + | Our lectures will be online on Zoom every week. Tutorials start in Week 2. | ||
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| + | ===== The next step in studying anthropology ===== | ||
| Everyone knows what anthropology is. It’s the study of human life in global terms, especially with respect to its diversity. Seems simple enough. Except… | Everyone knows what anthropology is. It’s the study of human life in global terms, especially with respect to its diversity. Seems simple enough. Except… | ||
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| Durkheim develops a new idea of society that is appropriate for a new social science. | Durkheim develops a new idea of society that is appropriate for a new social science. | ||
| - | Durkheim says that society causes itself. “Society is a reality //sui generis//; | + | Durkheim says that society causes itself. “Society is a reality //sui generis//; |
| Consider Rousseau: | Consider Rousseau: | ||
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| ===== Why do social facts feel like natural facts? ===== | ===== Why do social facts feel like natural facts? ===== | ||
| - | * Social facts simply ideas, but they seem real. They appear to each person as external and coercive constraints (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 56). | + | * Social facts are simply ideas, but they seem real. They appear to each person as external and coercive constraints (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 56). |
| * Everyone within one community will have the same social facts, so in some ways they would never think to question whether or not these norms were universal unless they stepped outside of their social world. | * Everyone within one community will have the same social facts, so in some ways they would never think to question whether or not these norms were universal unless they stepped outside of their social world. | ||
| * But on a deeper level, people don’t think about the implict rules they follow, because their **society is a big brain that thinks for them**, and this prevents individuals from consciously thinking about the social nature of what they think is natural. (Except, of course, in anthropology classes.) | * But on a deeper level, people don’t think about the implict rules they follow, because their **society is a big brain that thinks for them**, and this prevents individuals from consciously thinking about the social nature of what they think is natural. (Except, of course, in anthropology classes.) | ||
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| * The Enlightenment view is that the human subject is rational, and every person has the same kind of rational mind that is capable of understanding reality as it is. | * The Enlightenment view is that the human subject is rational, and every person has the same kind of rational mind that is capable of understanding reality as it is. | ||
| * Durkheim’s view is one of many that breaks with this view of the individual as a self-sufficient and complete mind, or a unitary subject. | * Durkheim’s view is one of many that breaks with this view of the individual as a self-sufficient and complete mind, or a unitary subject. | ||
| - | * Durkheim’s subject is a divided subject, a homo duplex. | + | * Durkheim’s subject is a divided subject, a //homo duplex//. Each person has two minds in one body. |
| * Each person is only aware of the individual side of their divided mind. | * Each person is only aware of the individual side of their divided mind. | ||
| * The other side is the collective mind. It along with everyone else’s collective mind thinks society into existence. | * The other side is the collective mind. It along with everyone else’s collective mind thinks society into existence. | ||
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| Durkheim, Emile. (1895) 1982. //The Rules of Sociological Method//. Edited by Steven Lukes. London: The Macmillan Press. https:// | Durkheim, Emile. (1895) 1982. //The Rules of Sociological Method//. Edited by Steven Lukes. London: The Macmillan Press. https:// | ||
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| + | ———. (1912) 1995. //The Elementary Forms of Religious Life//. Translated by Karen E. Fields. Reprint edition. New York: Free Press. | ||
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