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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2.1 @1002:2022
- ghts of the collective consciousness, but to each individual they feel real, like they are objective and exter... make choices based on rational thinking. * Each individual will tend to choose what gets them the most in re... l give up to acquire it?” For an economist, each individual seeks a rational maximization of utility. ===== ... assumptions: - People always see themselves as individuals with a distinct individual self-interest. - Pe
- 8.2 @1002:2018
- ' concept of modernity is the liberation of the individual from constraints inherited from the past. * When ... site of conjuncture ### Christianity is based on individualism * Personal, sincere confession * Equality of all believers qua moral subjects * Individual responsibility for one's relationship to God ### Prosperity theology is individualism without asceticism * Prayers to God must be a
- 7.1 @1002:2022
- cribed as prescriptions and prohibitions. * Are individuals nothing more than obedient, robotic rule-followe... nd to have an effect on their circumstances (i.e. individual agency)? ===== Is reciprocity a rule? ===== Pie... The social quality of reciprocity is a matter of individual practice. * If you reciprocate right away, the... is not a constraint on freedom; it is a source of individual agency. By embodying a social position, people a
- 7.1 @1002:2018
- s been.' Modern societies allow more freedom for individuals to make choices. Modern societies are based on agreements between individuals. Weber says that modern societies are **more ra... ased on a new way of thinking of the person as an individual, they actually paved the way for disembedding the... movement**: Modernity through creating autonomous individual believers who can choose to follow a pure Islamic
- 2.2 @1002:2024
- ====== Capitalism, commodities, and the bourgeois individual ====== ===== Capitalism, commodities, and the bourgeois individual ===== ==== Week 2: Gifts, commodities, and spher... ee both the reality of society and the fiction of individual alienation in every society, and they interact in... == Bourgeois culture teaches us that we are each individual economic actors and that there is no society on w
- 6.1 @1002:2024
- cribed as prescriptions and prohibitions. * Are individuals nothing more than obedient, robotic rule-followe... nd to have an effect on their circumstances (i.e. individual agency)? ===== Is reciprocity a rule? ===== Pie... The social quality of reciprocity is a matter of individual practice. * If you reciprocate right away, the... is not a constraint on freedom; it is a source of individual agency. By embodying a social position, people a
- 4.3.1 @1002:2019
- s great authority. Their choices and decisions as individual spirits have a great deal of influence on living ... ociety is a hypocognized experience for people in individualist cultures. They can see it if they think about ... free," that is, compelled to play the role of the individual without social ties and obligations (Rousseau 197
- 3.1 @1002:2024
- embeddedness of value are not just constraints on individual freedom; they are forms of collective agency. =... respond to market forces is by placing limits on individual choices * Wamira (Papua New Guinea) taro garde... , reciprocity, and interdependence to alienation, individualism, and commodity consumption. * Both the log
- 3.1.1 @1002:2019
- ### "Western" culture * Western culture values individualism. * Children are taught to be individuals. * Society and its rules are always external infringements on... n societies which have created the possibility of individualism, the the West, still have gifts and still have
- 13.1 @1002:2024
- adcliffe-Brown [1935] 1952, 181). * Unlike an individual animal, societies can and sometimes do become som... r? * As a reflection of the fact that people—as individuals and in communities to which they belong—know the... relevant to understand the present, either at an individual level, at the level of a single community of peop
- 5.2 @1002:2018
- respond to market forces is by placing limits on individual choices * Wamira (Papua New Guinea) taro gardens... stinction is a dichotomy. An opposition between individual self-interest and the collective force of a socia... et forces is not simply collective constraints on individual behavior. (That's a false dichotomy!) Rather, soc
- 5.1 @1002:2018
- respond to market forces is by placing limits on individual choices * Wamira (Papua New Guinea) taro gardens... stinction is a dichotomy. An opposition between individual self-interest and the collective force of a socia... et forces is not simply collective constraints on individual behavior. (That's a false dichotomy!) Rather, soc