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- 7.1 @1002:2018
- om "modern" societies. Traditional societies are based on following rules because 'this is the way it ha... individuals to make choices. Modern societies are based on agreements between individuals. Weber says th... ion". There are four types of social action, each based on a type of meaning they embody. * Traditional:... e an ethical person. They ask people to do things based on "value rationality". Pursuit of a collective g
- module_iii_essay @1002:2024
- tity, make an argument that the group identity is based on either what Nyamnjoh (2023) calls //completene... oup memberships, or forms of citizenship that are based on the ideal of //completeness// and, on the other hand, another kind of identity that is based instead on one’s //incompleteness// (see also Nya... u evidence for both the claim that an identity is based on completeness and that the same identity is bas
- 1.2 @1002:2024
- the topics this semester is that **societies are based on fictions**. Members of a society live as if their shared fiction is true. This class today is based on a fiction: * We all act **as if** you are s... as if we were individual actors who make choices based on economic rationality: * what gets me the m... ogists always begin by saying, “What I learned is based on a fiction. I have to forget everything I learn
- 12.2 @1002:2024
- ry. ==== Two ideologies of restoration ==== * Based on a rational mastery of nature through technology, engineering, and scientific prediction * Based on a sense of place and of “continuity” with the ... its transformation * New World colonialism was based on a “triangle trade” between Africa (a source of... r people to work plots. * Work on a plot is not based on land or labor as a resource to be owned, manag
- 12.1 @1002:2024
- ier is the limit of that law. Many societies are based on the **myth of the frontier** (Weber [1992] 200... ocieties are highly dependent on expert knowledge based in scientific observation.** But scientific know... ry. ==== Two ideologies of restoration ==== * Based on a rational mastery of nature through technology, engineering, and scientific prediction * Based on a sense of place and of “continuity” with the
- 2.2 @1002:2024
- ght sound like a simple dichotomy: - societies based on gifts, reciprocity, and a system of total services; - capitalist societies based on commodity production and consumption. Instead, consider this possibility: Every society is based on a system of total services, even if its member... m of total services. Yet, also, every society is based on a fiction. We need to be part of a social ord
- 5.1 @1002:2022
- partnership. ===== Nature and culture ===== DNA-based ancestry reports want users to believe that they ... l relatives. Kinship and family are relationships based on sameness. * This essence is passed down unch... cieties whose kinship is used to construct groups based on unilineal descent, either matrilineal or patri
- 7.2 @1002:2024
- ts, are also bureaucracies, and bureaucracies are based on rules. * Rules do well with quantitative me... idarity**, or a feeling of connection and oneness based on sameness and common ideas. * All the cells... *organic solidarity**, or a feeling of connection based on mutual interdependence to others who are diffe
- 4.1 @1002:2024
- -south-asia. ===== Nature and culture ===== DNA-based ancestry reports want users to believe that they ... l relatives. Kinship and family are relationships based on sameness. * This essence is passed down unch... cieties whose kinship is used to construct groups based on unilineal descent, either matrilineal or patri
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- eral ideas of modern politics and citizenship are based on beliefs, too ===== Many societies call themse... es. But these societies are, like all societies, based on social fictions. * The nation is a social f... in a single territory. * A democratic system is based on a social fiction. We act **as if** there is a
- 10.2 @1002:2024
- = ==== Foraging or “hunting and gathering” ==== Based on the collection of wild foods and game (fish and meat). ==== Pastoralism ==== Based on the tending of herds of domesticated animals, ... be absolutely sure whether a society is primarily based on one type or not. The difference between horti
- 5.2 @1002:2018
- nking to the relationship of wage labor, which is based on exploitation. Workers often find ways to colle... al values which contrast with those found in gift-based societies. ## Dichotomous thinking ## An eithe... so partly sustained by informal support? * Family-based aged care? * Can you think of other examples of
- 4.1 @1002:2022
- provisional conclusion ==== * Every society is based on the obligations of reciprocity, even if the we... ist in every society. * These two systems are based on completely contrary ways of being and thinking
- 9.2 @1002:2024
- ich they claimed was universal but was implicitly based on themselves as a model (Du Bois 1921, 29, 42). ... icant * racial projects can be either racist (based on assumptions of racial inferiority) or anti-rac
- 7.1 @1002:2024
- ll use social ties to patch the holes in a market-based society. Today, we can see that the triumph of t... munities (Chatterjee 1998). * Ideas of a nation based on sameness mean that actual members of a nation-