POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Introjection, Ethnocentrism
18 Sep 2016
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The passing of traditional society daniel lerner. In-depth study of how people in the middle east cope with the decline of traditional ways because new social organizations are being adapted. Middle east modernization is its own ethnocentrism want modern institutions, but not ideologies; modern power but not purpose; modern wealth but not wisdom. The mobile person is different as having a high capacity for identification with new aspects of his environment enlarging a man"s identity can operate in two ways: projection + introjection (empathy can be used a shorthand for both) In a modern society, more individuals exhibit higher empathic capacity than in any previous society. Direction of change for all countries is always from oral to media system; and that the degree of change toward media system correlated with changes in other sectors of the social system. Those in a historical lag may be due to these three phases: urbanization transfer of pop.
