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- Society
- # Society # A key concept scholars use to understand human life is that of **society**. It is a very broad, fuzzy concept in some ways... ocial** terms, they do have a specific sense of **society**. It is good to ask yourself, "OK, what does this scholar think a society is? What is their theory of society, and how does
- The practice of social theory @6916:2020
- ny, this lay in the progressive transformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to un... lain why this transformation happens. Theories of society developed, then, in the context of a faith in modernity. Indeed, the development of a theory of society was itself often taken as an expression of this m... dernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming conscious of itself and thus able to
- Religion and Economy
- eligion// (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). ## The sacred society and the sacred self ## The interaction of religi... as social domains. In the Durkheimian tradition, society is a thing sui generis and a total system, a whol... of their consciousness to the collective mind of society. Thus, for Durkheim, the study of society and the study of religion go hand in hand as part of an examinat
- City air makes you free @1002:2018
- Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American ... l and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This class is about the conditions of life and society in the contemporary world. The contemporary wor... their interactions with other cultures, and every society is a product of their history. * Complex. Many di
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- us Life* (1915), Durkheim states that religion is society worshipping itself((While this catchy phrase is o... and at several points in the book he does equate society and the sacred in this way, and he says in the co... igion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion" (1915: 419). In other words, it is not the emp
- Emile Durkheim
- Durkheim argued for a new conceptualization of [[society|society]] in which, as he famously said, one should "consider social facts as things" (Durkheim 1982 [1895... ideas, norms, rules and values which members of a society shared as if they were part of objective reality.... ocial facts impose themselves on individuals of a society, constraining them and shaping how they act. Th
- Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
- ne to read? Do you have any questions for me? ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of relig... focuses on the relationships between religion and society, and the role played by religious ideas, practice... he value of religion itself is different in every society, because every society is different. * Anthropology looks broadly at the human condition in all its divers
- Max Weber
- Weber # Max Weber is an influential theorist of society. Like [[Karl Marx]] and [[Emile Durkheim]], Weber developed a way of thinking about society as a system, which made it possible for people to... ese other key social theorists, Weber's theory of society is based on action. This means that a society comes into being through the individual and collective actio
- The charisma of the coronavirus
- virus thrives in environments and dies in others; society creates the environments in which it thrives. Bei... derly is a social role, and an expression of this society’s culture. The coronavirus dies in hostile social... ce work is intrinsically more risky, and yet this society also links this kind of work to a social classifi... ued that we can explain the patterns we find in a society by looking to the values held by people of that s
- Do the dead have rights? @1002
- 12, 5). ## Kwaio ancestors People of Kwaio society live in the inland mountains of the island of Mal... facilitated by male priests of a kin group Kwaio society is another example in which the meaning of one pe... ol down" spirits' anger (Akin 2003, 397). Kwaio society in the twenty-first century reveals another parad... estor worship---has also become a record of their society's history and change. ## The symmetrical
- "No man dies without a reason" @1002
- the dead ## A question If you were raised in a society in which mourning is not practiced in this way, y... u to ask a different question: **Why doesn't your society compel you to see that you are involved in other ... s, and ideas, and together they serve to maintain society as a whole.** Because they wanted to understand ... tice or custom * the mentality of the people of a society, i.e. whether they were scientific, rational, or
- The obligations of the gift @1002
- logy and anthropology * He wanted to analyze [[:society|society]] as an objective fact * Society is a collective consciousness, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... ld like to introduce a major division in types of society. ### "Western" culture * Western culture value
- Marcel Mauss and the gift @1002:2018
- r. * The main question for anthropology is why a society stays the same. ## Durkheim and Mauss ##... ociology and anthropology * He wanted to analyze society as an objective fact * Society is a collective consciousness, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bor... m. * Children are taught to be individuals. * Society and its rules is something that one should be abl
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- n's better known contributions is the typology of society on a scale from primitive to civilized. He propos... entiated classes of kinship and membership in the society. In the period of civilization, societies exhibit... tiation between the institutions of the state and society. In this sense, Morgan also argued that the path of development of a society was a movement from a state of //societas// to //
- Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @1001:2020
- ngs ==== Marshall Sahlins “The Original Affluent Society,” in //Stone Age Economics// (London: Routledge, ... 81315184951]]. ## A story of yams Auhelawa is a society on the south coast of Duau (Normanby Island), off... certainly there is an influence of environment on society. People need the environment in order to live. K... s that the natural environment does not determine society. People use their environment as part of a **defi
- “God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
- The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
