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- religion_and_economy
- ing classified as sacred entails rules that every individual must follow and which mark it off from normal lif... It is through contact with the sacred, then, that individuals submit themselves to a collective order, and thu... ocial order, maintaining the subordination of the individual to the group as a whole. Yet because Durkheimian... ple functions simultaneously, and generally bound individuals to the collective. Actions thus expressed religi
- society
- simply a rigid, fixed structure that limits what individuals do. * //But here's the tricky part...// One of ... least with that metaphor, you can imagine how an individual relates to the social whole. In the building metaphor, individuals live inside the building. It might limit how the... at the social system from the perspective of the individuals in it. But that's not the whole story. We also h
- 8.1 @1002:2018
- ding importance, that is, "sacred" value? ## The individual as a cultural construct Western societies tend to teach members to see themselves as individuals. This has come into our discussion in several wa... e directly the idea all these have in common: The individual. ## An alternative to Weber Weber assumed that being an individual is natural, and hence a precondition for social a
- anthony_giddens
- always lacked a way of explaining the effects of individual actions. And yet, every individual, to some extent, possesses agency, a capacity to act, and without this age... tend to describe social change as a liberation of individuals from groups, traditions, religion and the power ... lexity creates more choices and opportunities for individuals. Modern societies place greater importance on th
- 13 @2700:2022
- he dominant conception of the human subject as an individual. As Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o says in a recent profile in... only see other people’s ways of life in terms of individual choices and decisions. He would use cultural desc... at is, the capacity to act. Actual people act as individuals, but the effect of these actions depends on the ... responsible for action. Groups also act, but in individualist cultures, the actions of groups are usually on
- 2 @2700:2022
- ike he defines society as a force that constrains individual freedom and forces each individual to confirm. In fact, Durkheim’s ideas are more abstract. To understand society we have to get beyond the individual. We need to see the whole system at once. * Fr... ch reproduce a social pattern with no discernable individuality. Durkheim argues that to explain any part of
- 1 @2700:2025
- > [Ironically, uniting as a group to restrain individuals] was, or must have been, the origin of society a... ault model of subjectivity is that we are each an individual. What if our intuition is wrong? ===== We start ... oice for me. Each of us operates as if we are an individual subject: internally complete, self-contained, aut... seau assumes that people are rational, autonomous individuals in the state of nature. He concludes that, beca
- 11 @2700:2025
- other people is to act on other people, either as individuals, as groups, or as larger-scale systems. * Le... is always co-performed. It’s not an expression of individual agency. But it’s not the outcome of the normative... social action is. The agent in society is not an individual, it’s two or more people cooperating. That would ... (locus) of **effective social action** is not the individual person but the relationship between two or more p
- the_charisma_of_the_coronavirus
- who cares about your qualitative descriptions of individual case studies of single communities? This is milli... g people always do what is best for themselves as individuals. Weber says that the most significant kind of ra... responses in many societies has been based on the individual. When we see the pandemic the way scientists do, we see it in terms of numbers of individual cases. It is taken for granted that the goal is t
- emile_durkheim
- t should be seen as something external to any one individual consciousness. Social facts impose themselves on individuals of a society, constraining them and shaping how ... ther way, like the thoughts of a collective mind. Individuals do not merely join or participate in a social sy... ctive consciousness. Durkheim's conception of the individual subject is also influential in this regard. He de
- 4.2.1 @1002:2019
- thro.rschram.org/1002/2019/4.2.1 ## Death is not individual When people die, the relationships that they me... s an injury to the social body. ## But death is individual Death is individual in the sense that it is end of an individual biological organism. ## Cultures contain contradictions Cult
- 3.2 @1002:2022
- ption. * They are “experts” at being bourgeois individuals. * The expanding consumer culture of the urban... its? * The fame one earns as a model bourgeois individual is also work. * Shopping media cultivates the proper ethos of individualism in audiences. ===== Individualism is learned ===== Media texts about shopping, and the experience of sho
- 10 @2700:2025
- haphazard pattern in a museum display case, each individually painted and decorated in vibrant colors and off... odern, rural are **just labels** someone slaps on individual things. No ideal types exist: **I am a nominalist... hic, uniform** block. They are a diverse group of individuals. * **Don’t** **lump** some societies together ... in a hidden essentialism ==== * Everyone is an individual, and each individual is **essentially like** othe
- 1 @2700:2021
- g brain that thinks for them**, and this prevents individuals from consciously thinking about the social natur... is one of many that breaks with this view of the individual as a self-sufficient and complete mind, or a unit... one body. * Each person is only aware of the individual side of their divided mind. * The other side ... d thinks society into existence. * Sometimes an individual will use their individual mind to think about doi
- 2 @2700:2021
- ’s split subject: * One part of each person is individual. One is consciously aware of this mind * Anothe... of the collective mind and is inaccesible to the individual mind Social facts are just ideas, but to an individual they appear to be things. Society constructs (thinks... understand each other at one moment in time. * Individual variations in speaking **don’t change** the langu