SOCI 2110H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Structuration Theory, Social Capital, Opiate
13 Nov 2018
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Habermas) (e. g. low voter turnout: or have other processes become more important (e. g. social movements for pay equity, abortion rights), sydie: remaining reflexive, interpretative role for theorists (38) Primitive" world: they studied ancient history, colonial societies, aboriginal kinship systems only some of the focus was on the new qualities of modern" society, binaries: primitive/civilized; modern/non-modern. The elementary form: totemism: australian clans: bound by the clan name & bound to the totem of the clan, the sacredness & power of the totem doesn"t derive from the animal or vegetable (73, but for society. It is the flag (73) of the society, the visible mark of its personality (74: at once the symbol of the god & the society (74) society is god. Structures: rules & resources, or sets of transformation relations, organized as properties of social systems. Systems: reproduced relations between actors or collectivity"s, organized as regular social practices.
