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- 8.1 @1002:2018
- ding importance, that is, "sacred" value? ## The individual as a cultural construct Western societies tend t... 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... tion, and so we must take their perspective as an individual to see what they create through action. What if
- 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
- its? * The fame one earns as a model bourgeois individual is also work. * Shopping media cultivates the p... o modernity, from a state of constraint to one of individual freedom. In this view, consumption is simply a realization of the individual’s freedom to choose. Yet look at how much effort... ions, and to teach people to be the right kind of individual. ===== References and further reading ===== Ma
- 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. ===== ... ays see themselves as individuals with a distinct individual self-interest. - People value the same things,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7.1 @1002:2022
- 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
- 8.2 @1002:2018
- ' concept of modernity is the liberation of the individual from constraints inherited from the past. * When ... * Equality of all believers qua moral subjects * Individual responsibility for one's relationship to God ##... traditional identities and structures in favor of individual rights and a Western form of government. ### G
- 6.1 @1002:2024
- 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
- 3.1 @1002:2022
- arket may also sound like a social world based on individual personal freedom. For them, this is //[[:modernit... cus// (or the innate economic rationality of each individual), but also believes that there is a logic in hist
- 4.3.1 @1002:2019
- s great authority. Their choices and decisions as individual spirits have a great deal of influence on living ... free," that is, compelled to play the role of the individual without social ties and obligations (Rousseau 197
- 4.2.2 @1002:2019
- ilemmas between two equally important ideas. * Individual health versus individual choice * Contradictions that emerge in history, when societies interact and influenc
- 8.2 @1002:2024
- * In Christian thinking, morality is a matter of individual beliefs. This tendency is only emphasized in Prot... beral nation-state also promises that religion is individual, private, and has no bearing on whether a person
- 3.2.1 @1002:2019
- rI}} ## Capital, commodities, and the bourgeois individual * When people must sell their labor as a commod... social status of the autonomous, and isolated, **individual** who has no enduring obligations to anyone. ##