IGS 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Russian Literature, Sociology Of Culture

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: International and Global Studies
• Course: IGS 10a
• Professor: Chandler Rosenberger

Document Summary

Culture and wolrd affairs ------------- part 2 of igs ------------ * talk about cultural sociology with p. roseberger. Culture is important in understanding how people think of global institutions. If you want to understand how a society works, you have to understand their cultural background cultural sociologist. Collapse of soviet union is, for russia, profoundly disturbing to them. We, as westerners, can"t understand this unless we look at russian literature and culture and see what their made of! Very hard to understand putin"s actions without seeing the importance of national pride. Can talk about how to change russia"s behavior (security council, eu measures) unless you understand where the russians are coming from, you won"t see how important russian"s status/dignity is. Need to see how a country priorites things like democracy, national pride, economics, influence in world affairs is. Beliefs and practices that characterize social life and indicate how society should be run .