SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Invisible Hand, Individualism
6 Nov 2018
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Society = sum of individual and their acts. Individuals will limited: by themselves; law they put on themselves; lack of knowledge/resources. Constraining: unknowingly limiting individual; feel when resisting observable: something concrete and visible thru effects. Starts in notion of subject/subjectivity; autonomous and free. Cri(cid:373)e is fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al: (cid:449)ithout (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e, (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:272)ore (cid:448)alues of society. Ask why judge did sentence, answer is functional. 1960s black ghettos in usa: radical movements (black panthers reducing crime = functional) Fbi eradicate them for white institution they belonged in. Form of knowledge to make sense of world. From 2nd hand research of australian aboriginese (toteism) Sacred: set of beliefs (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e left i(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, has to be present in society thru rituals or else no society. Religion is creation of sacred, labelling things sacred/taboo. Sense impression filtered thru mind, organizing and making sense of it. Objects seen as how they appear in mind.
