SOCI 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Objectified, Vijay Award For Favourite Song, Demagogue
21 Aug 2016
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Urgent need to rethink what civilization meant. Doubts on the central concepts of european philosophy. Division between external world and world of the mind. Homo clausus closed person suggested that this model treats people as human statues who only observe the world through stone eyes. Methodologically individualist (noticed this first in weber, then parsons (social systems as distinct entities) This is rooted in a false philosophical cartegion split of ones thoughts of the world. Homo clausus image process reduction take a whole process that exists in history and reduce it to some unchanging timeless aspect. Distrust static expressions such as structure, boundary, system, strata suggest unchanging conditions (for parsons they were) Continuous flux of social life that is missed by this. Argues against marx (but is closer to) Group of theorists tried to make sense of germany in the 1930s. Was held in an internment camp by britain.
