SOCB05H3 Lecture 11: lec11-notes.docx
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Intersection of social circles: different types of groups that overlap with each other. Metro + mental life: the extreme social situation of the metropolis & how it effects your mind. Culture & its challenges: tragedy of culture, conflict of culture. Cultural meanings of individualism: conspicuous individualism. Show-off, look at how great i am". Unsustainable for obvious reasons: egalitarian individualism. Discovering who you are is finding that in you which you share with all other people: qualitative individualism. Becoming you is figuring out what is different in you compared to everybody else. Social conditions that produced individualism: group expansion. The bigger the group, the more the sense of individuality. The smaller the group, the less individuality. The more overlapping groups that you"re in, the more individuality. The less overlapping groups, the less individuality. Example: 2 groups of people: 1 small group. Everyone"s pretty much similar to one another. They can more or less do everything.