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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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- . * “[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
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- ocieties. * To the claim that all people act as individuals who seek to rationally maximize the utility of t... // that would supercede the explanations based on individual biology and psychology. Implied in the critical ... he synchronic, holist //logos// is the claim that individuals have agency.) ===== Old and new ===== Things c... nherited from the past; new things are created by individuals who want to create them. * This is a bias refl
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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