ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eugenics, Jimi Hendrix, Age Of Enlightenment
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Social fact- the teacher is standing and the student is sitting in desk, children answer to adults. Durkheim is trying to figure out how to measure things. Comte was interested in how we could use information in the world to regulate the social sphere. If cultures out there and we made it up then we can destroy it. Everything surrounded by dos and donts and auras. These are just rules theyre made up by people. Not in order to give you commandments but finds out values to try to break the constraints. The world is full of knowns and when we locate them it feels good but when we can"t locate it we feel uneasy. Aristotle- started looking at systems and cities- how we govern ourselves. Augustine- god is wondrous we don"t need to go outside to understand and measure things. Christian and islamic theologians move towards to try to ask more questions.
