GS220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eric Hobsbawm, Modernization Theory, Invented Tradition
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Next week: guest lecture by darren thomas. You can take notes in a notebook. Note: if you want your annotated bibliography mark back, submit it. March 21 (one week early: if you submit march 28, you won"t receive your mark by the exam date. Why is it important to pay atenion to the historicity of culture. What kinds of pracices, things, words are associated with. Social scienists use tradiion in 2 overlapping & contradictory sense. A temporal frame that marks of the historical period that comes from modernity. Coninuous cultural transmission in the form of discrete cultural pracices of the past that remain important in the present premodern culture. Anthony giddens (sociologist): contrasts radical doubt of modernity & sense of security. Core of tradiion is normaive (prescribes how life should be lived) & purpose is to reproduce paterns of culture. The normaive transmission links generaions of the dead with generaions of the living .
