ANTHR 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Panic, Asian Values, Greater China
19 Dec 2017
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Ideology is always about pushing particular interests: everything else is sort of icing on the cake. Ideology is a superstructure that masks interests (marx) Interest theorists argue that all human beings are rational on some level and ideology can further advance these interests. Strain if the world doesn"t make sense given that we are creatures of meaning: national integration and primordialism, the ineffable bond of primordiality clashes with civil ideas in emerging states. Secular rationalist leaders could be seen as the enemy: the bonds of kinship, race, religion, region, custom, and language. Sometimes crisis turns people to a very rigid and traditional way of thinking: crisis of meaning, social anomie, economic marginalization. If there is one way of thinking forced upon an entire culture this can result in anomie: reifications--cannot take an idea and make it real by conceptualizing another civilization into simplistic forms. They are forced then to the conclusion that the victims finish this it is recorded.
