SOCIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louis Althusser, Semiotics, Working Class Culture
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Communicative rationality: this is what students are asking for. East germany in uenced by soviet union when partitioned. West germany = liberal democracy further partitioned berlin, small part of berlin known as west berlin existing inside of berlin (rest was east) West berlin: liberal: students protest for a broad, but politically relevant curriculum, intellectual conditions at the university. Faculty are liberal, but not politically engaged which leads to perfect conditions! no repression of the students, because that would be wild, and students are safe and liberal climate. Speci c demands, reasonable to implement this is linked to communicative rationale (for the university to be a public sphere) want, as private individuals, to bring demands and issues forward and have it be discussed. Why is protest so limited? : economy of poverty in an economy of abundance, institutions are con ict free, but violent, opponents not obvious, but no agents.