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- 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
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- 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
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- 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... on’s 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
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- ve we live in a mass society and each of us is an individual face in the crowd. In fact, many different forces... ly within one’s own imagination, as an autonomous individual (Anderson [1983] 2006, 25). * European states d... l imagined community is a form of progress toward individual liberation. * Nationalism in his sense is dou... dernity. He wants people to realize themselves as individuals, and sees his sense of national identity as a st
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- tly but still have the same stock characters * Individual people * Social, collective forces The metanar... Melanesian persons are as dividually as they are individually conceived. They contain a generalized sociality... eading: Melanesians are dividuals; Westerners are individuals * Strong reading: Everyone is either dividual or individual, depending on the situation. ==== Expanding the
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- rn progress is a specific version of the rational individual. The story goes: * Before, the individual was trapped in ignorance and accepted it. * As time goes on, ... al patterns fade away, there is more room for the individual’s conscious, rational mind to influence the world. * The individual was once mastered by external forces, but now is
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- hy, prosperous, and happy. It does not operate on individuals, and it does not directly control or coerce people as individuals. A government deals in statistics, that is, est... do anything. It is you. Without your agency as an individual, there is no fuel to maintain social order. Power... ildren. * Schools pervasively rank children as individuals and groups. * This is not a plot against chi
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- . * “[Language] is something which is in each individual, but is none the less common to all. At the same ... ut of the reach of any deliberate interference by individuals” (Saussure 1986, 19). * The linguistic ana... ty is capable of change and growth, because every individual is always driven to compete for resources and to
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- mus” (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, 181). * Unlike an individual animal, societies can and sometimes do become som
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- d> </HTML> A modern society is a society based on individualism, voluntary choice, and rational rules for coop
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- nherited from the past; new things are created by individuals who want to create them. * This is a bias refl
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- bureaucracies are rationally planned, the role of individual occupant of an office is merely to do a job, to f