MUSI 2540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cosmopolitanism
9 May 2018
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Deep Participation
● Deep participation generates an inclusive solidarity that is stabilized and sustaining,
resulting in the creation of a social integrative power that can be maintained over long
periods.
● Deep participation only operates in the context of rapid social change and instability.
● As a basis for successful change, it is imperative to include underlying social institutions
and their organizing groups. Social institutions can offer stabilizing support and
legitimized social integrative power to new, desired social, economic, and political ideas
needed in times of crisis.
Six Elements of Deep Participation
1. High differentials of culture and power create destabilizing conditions.
2. Iterative critical thought and resonating emotion generate new social knowledge.
3. Essential social and cultural legitimacy is created and applied.
4. Social-indigenous institutions provide the placement for these actions.
5. Social energy, featuring inclusion, takes root and sustains itself for the long term.
6. Integrative social power emerges and anchors the new social convention.
Social protests may have our sympathy and even our support. But do they lead to tangible and
sustainable change?
Cosmopolitanism
● Cosmopolitan = citizen of the cosmos
● Cosmopolitans “regard all the peoples of the earth as so many branches of a single
family…” (Wieland)
Appiah on the global community
● We are globally connected
● We can make global impacts
● We can get to know a world of strangers - and become familiar with strange ideas
● Through conversations with others, we progress in our morality.
Global threats to social justice
● Poverty and food/shelter insecurity
● Climate change and environmental degradation
● War and religious/ethnic conflict
● Gender-based discrimination and violence
● Others…
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Document Summary
Deep participation generates an inclusive solidarity that is stabilized and sustaining, resulting in the creation of a social integrative power that can be maintained over long periods. Deep participation only operates in the context of rapid social change and instability. As a basis for successful change, it is imperative to include underlying social institutions and their organizing groups. Social institutions can offer stabilizing support and legitimized social integrative power to new, desired social, economic, and political ideas needed in times of crisis. Social protests may have our sympathy and even our support. Cosmopolitans regard all the peoples of the earth as so many branches of a single family (wieland) We can get to know a world of strangers - and become familiar with strange ideas. Through conversations with others, we progress in our morality.
