SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lifeworld, Social Fact, Harold Garfinkel
16 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The dominant philosophical view in france pre and post war was existentialism. Existentialism: what it means to be human and to interact with the world. If there are no norms how do people deal with that concerned with concrete human behaviors. Humans are better then all other beings because we make choices. Humans are always acting in some way and don"t just take what we have we always want to do projects and such. We are forced to create meaning to end up knowing what and how we should react to situations. Albert camus" (1913-1960) writing expressed the view that human values appeared to have no solid foundation. In sartre"s philosophy, an individual exists and is absolutely free, but is defined by their action: one is never free not to act. Humans can never simply be"; freedom forces humanity to make itself" through action There is never a social situation in which you aren"t free to act.
