SOC 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eye Contact, Strange Behaviour, Attention
19 Apr 2016
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The most basic social unit, indivisible, agents (acts on the world, possesses agency) No such thing as an individual just the idea of an individual. The idea that individuals exist in a relativity is a new one. Subject to change over time, place, context (not a fixed concept) What is good for the individual is primary (taken as good for the society in general) Ideologies are made to appear natural (e. g. women are inherently inferior) We need to denaturalize the ideal of individualism (we can"t think we are the center of the universe this has consequences) Power eternalizes the arbitrary (survival of the fittest) Our society promotes the capacity to express yourself. Some societies don"t promote this expression (north korea, oppressive regime, uniformality, collective effort)(military, nazi germany)(or, even more mundane examples teenagers, families, religions) Torn between the need to express yourself and the need to keep things in check.
