SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: No Authority, Enculturation, Social Order
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Ideas themselves become commodities: significant change in understanding of our culture in way culture works, so on, no longer is it free, you have to gain access to it. Ernest gellner (in reader: parallels anderson, definition of nationalism (pg. Can"t develop shared values without printing press, etc. Central issues: legitimacy, culture, organisation of state, becomes reorganised around communicating with it"s populous in a brand new way, new institutions become central. "once none had the state, then some had it, and finally all have it. " (pg. "the "state" is that institution/set of institutions specifically concerned w/ enforcement of order. " (pg. The executioner: violating the law, violated the state"s border. Returning to the history: emergence of industrial capitalism, protestant reformation breaks down the monolithic religious authority of. "i may not doubt that anything exists, except doubt itself: no authority that has the power to override what i think through my experiences/participation/knowledge, allowed to descent/question, (dangerously) radical, expressing philosophically new age.
