DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Biopower, Nuclear Family, Norbert Elias
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The social sciences during the 20th century (rationalisation: rationalisation and secularisation, elias and foucoult: civilisation and discipline. J rgen habermas: publish spheres (rise of democracy in the. Pantheism: more structured world of all kind of gods. Monotheism: something for large empires (except: roman empires. Ethical monotheism: a god who doesn"t have to explain bad luck but also ethical, before it was never really ethical. Weber and modernisation: from: value-rational action: resources serve values (protesestant ethic, to: instrumental rational action: resources serve goals (market and power, to: autonomous spheres in society with instrumental rationality, everywhere other goals. With the rise of communism, marx was not that popular anymore. Cultural explanations became more important religion and cultural processes. What is secularisation: decline of beliefs: we do not need god to explain everything, it is explained by science and theories, separate spheres: religion become separate domain.
