SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Barter, Georg Simmel, Peer Pressure
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Recap: circle understood what the social is meant association understood his methodology forms of association. * we saw how he applied those themes to individuality. * we looked at personal consequences of living in extended social circle and overlapping social. Main key differences between village life and city life: More than 50% of population now lives in a city. Cities of the size that we live in is impossible to know everyone on daily basis. Time many things to do, not much people to meet. One experience of culture is it"s so big, while you"re so small. Creative person who"s putting their creative ideas into the thing. From perspective of culture, culture is what gives form/content to our life process/energy. They give a framework to creative life, gives something you can pour your energy to world. You have to make/create something to be creative. You end up creating things that express seeing things in creative way.
