SOCI 30323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Modern History, Narcocorrido, Domestic Violence
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Post wwii: (1945-present: modernity: (15th-16th ce) Individual/individual autonomy: against tradition/feudalism, less bound by tradition, capitalism, moral/cultural relativity/plurality, media/mass communication, suggests people desire to gain knowledge, late modernism, we have not only arrived at pluralistic/relativistic, but hyper- pluralistic (endless) Ontological uncertainty/insecurity (the nature of being; what is life?) Uncertainty in why people are living/doing certain acts: crimes of late modernity, crimes against late modernity. Not to steal money but rather to self-actualize. Involves essentializing people/fundamentalism (attempt to reestablish pre-modern certainty) Crimes involving (cid:498)othering(cid:499) (cid:523)creates dichotomy between (cid:498)us(cid:499) and (cid:498)them(cid:499)(cid:524) Narcocorrido: music celebrating drug culture in mexico spread through world now in us as narco-fashion and narco-language.
