SOCI 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Symbolic, False Consciousness, Political Correctness
11 Sep 2015
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Society to maintain order need institutions. Interactions mainted through interactsiona and communication. To have belief is to have a conviction. Enlightenment thinkers lift the veil of false consciousness. Both of these built the foundation for sociology ethical, truth in science. Who you are as a self based on our belief. Depending on culture, your truth is based on customs. No, it is maintained by thoughts, our acknowledgement of these truths. Which came first? (egg vs. chicken phenomena) In order to change society that we live in. We have external forces, coercive forces surround the individual. Trained to understand you behave in a certain social context. Behave in situations with confidence or no confidence. Social psychology look at self within the circumstance of society. Modern consciousness is alienated from the self, cultivated machine. Breaks all the norms of political correctness. Seen as the ideal human (e. g ambitious, powerful) Where does this idea of self come from? .
