DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Imagined Community, Transnationalism
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Social imaginary how people imagine their social surroundings/existance in images, stories and legends. Ex. borders don"t actually exist on a map. Igor stravinsky: certain assumptions that go into making (ex. maps art etc. ) things that dominates early 20th century thought. Loud percussion moments which signify closure, glorification of some parts. He is conducting, everyone is following him. Sassure the way language works is by distinction by difference. A sound image gets connected with a concept and that"s how language works. Representations in the social sciences and humanities are dependent upon images of break rupture and disjunction. The fact that people can divide the world with such clarity is a cultural accomplishment. Major effect is that there has been established an isomorphic relationship bw nation place and culture. If the social sciences have been driven by breakage, than the result is that there is a one to one relationship between nation and place.