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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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- > [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
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- 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
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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... 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
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- ’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
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- 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
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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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- === In a society where - every person has the individual right to their own religion, and - different pe... ct social norms or values into a template that an individual can apply to actions in a field. * It is the em... en oneself and others, and in the technologies of individual domination, in the mode of action that an individual exercises upon himself by means of the technology of the
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- ts to sound like it’s a **boot on the face of the individual** historical actors in a society. Ouch! Maybe th... w social forces determine the conditions in which individual actors operate and exercise agency. ===== Two ap... ^**Methodological holism**^ ^**Methodological individualism**^ |From the top down | |From the bot... ifford Geertz is a good example of methodological individualism (as is his student, Sherry Ortner). This is th
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- han the sum of the parts that make them up. * **Individual facts and social facts are fundamentally differen... amental opposition between that which pertains to individual conscious experience on the one hand and social r... ic**. It’s the logic of the mail sorting machine. Individual experiences and actions have a completely differe... and we can see the connections among them. * Individual behaviors come from wants, desires, choices, and
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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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- 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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- 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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- . * “[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... ymbolic categories are not so much constraints on individual action but necessary conditions for action. This ... sification makes it possible for people to act as individuals, because it makes it possible for other people t