CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anomie, Lifeworld, Civil Society

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Punishment according to social conventions: failure in front of authority. Extending technical power and increase in forces of production. Primitive: not a profession, meets daily needs of his family, community. No monopoly on the animal, time, or labor: may own a cow or two for daily use, access to product of own labor is unconditional, rationale: daily sufficiency. Traditional: butcher may or may not own cows. Consensus: a rational understanding can lead to agreement between individuals, the pragmatic meaning of an utterance depends on its validity. 2: sincere speech act makes three validity claims: validity claim to truth; validity claim to rightness; and validity claim to truthfulness. Discourse: communication about communication, form of speech that has a goal of reaching a rationally motivated consensus (in case of communication breakdown) Enemies of civil society: john hall (1996) lists, despotism, specific forms of nationalism, totalizing ideology.