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- 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 doing something new and different, something that challenges th
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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... understand each other at one moment in time. * Individual variations in speaking **don’t change** the langu
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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... s his sense of national identity as a step toward individual freedom. * Another limitation, following from t
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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... * Strong reading: Everyone is either dividual or individual, depending on the situation. ==== Expanding the ... shifts in different situations * and not an individual person * a unitary, coherent, consistent
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- . * “[Language] is something which is in each individual, but is none the less common to all. At the same ... ty is capable of change and growth, because every individual is always driven to compete for resources and to
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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
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- mus” (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, 181). * Unlike an individual animal, societies can and sometimes do become som
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- bureaucracies are rationally planned, the role of individual occupant of an office is merely to do a job, to f
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- do anything. It is you. Without your agency as an individual, there is no fuel to maintain social order. Power