SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allan Bloom, Georg Simmel, Alexis De Tocqueville
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Soc201 classical sociological theory 1: community and religion. Allan bloom the failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency- the belief that the here and now is all there is. Thailand, young man before marriage spends time in monastery, head shaved, modesty, wears special coloured robe, normally saffron, novices wear white: sometimes just a symbolic amount of time, or months and months. Calm inner voice, find tranquility: society is making a choice about values when they allow young men to withdraw and engage in non-productive time and act as parasites, time in university should be seen as the same thing. Space outside of everything else: thinking critically about how things work, worth depends on what we can buy and acquire. Advertising conditions us to measure worth this way. What are the ways to assess yourself, people around you, and society.
