CGS SS 101 Lecture 15: 11.12.14
6 Apr 2016
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The middle ages: modernization: gemeinschaft to gesellschaft. Shift from attributes from gem. (small, personal relationships: division of labor minimal, society religious/sacred. To ges. (more, less personal relationships: urban life; sophisticated division of labor; more rational, society is secular. Societies experience profound changes in consciousness and structure: characteristics of modernity, rationalism. Weber pointed out; saw to be single most-important characteristic to modernized society. Conscious effort to put order on behavior in order to achieve a goal as efficiently as possible: secularism. Preoccupation with the world here and now: faustian ethos. Ethos refers to central value that motivates a culture. Faustian can never be satisfied; societies attempt to control nature world to fulfill human needs; overcome limitations of nature/master physical world: urbanism. Shifting of populations from rural to city life (simmel talked about: specialization of labor. High degree; consequence, industrial/technological production (durkheim: bureaucratization. Become more dependent on bureaucracies; most rational way of organizing humans: centralized polity.
