SOC100 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Albert Camus, Medical Model
18 Apr 2014
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Instead, this approach emphasises that how we see ourselves, as a student, are produced based on our interactions and social context. I do not exist before my social interactions: we are socialized by our parents, socials and society at large --> we are made in our interactions with others. In his book the leviathan, thomas hobbes describes "war of each against all" so that life is "nasty, burtish and short". Also believed in the social contract: durkheim --> pre-modern societies are of a type held together by "mechanical solidarity" Tasks are simply structured, regulated and divided (woman, tribesmen, clans). However, modern captialism produces society in which labour tasks are broken down into discrete components, become specialized and require many individuals to get the job done (pen in your hand) --> interdependence - social glue that he calls. Freedom is a basic and natural attribute of human beings; we are free by nature.
