SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Warming, Food Security, Anthropocentrism
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Soci 100 lecture 3 - ways of seeing. Humans have a tendency to focus on differences and split things into groups, which too often leads to evaluation (ex: facial features, skin tone, etc. ) This consists of no judgment about ways of seeing, simply analysis. Religious systems can be thought of as ways to structure our thoughts. Defining myth here as a set of ideas (schemas) Myths are universal properties of human society; every society has a creation myth. They exaggerate one way of seeing; domination of nature myth exaggerates the notion that humans have power. But we don"t have to subscribe to human exceptionalism. Can have alternative way of thinking that doesn"t perpetuate the domination of nature. Buddhism stresses the achievement of enlightenment, but not human exceptionalism because in that school of though, we could be reborn as anything in our next life. The sioux think of animals as different but equal.
