SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Unintended Consequences, Antonio Gramsci, Middle Ages
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Antonio gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist. We all have an intellect and use our minds to make sense of the world in which we live. What we do our day- to- day actions is part of the making and remaking of the actual world we live in. Gramsci"s point is not only that anyone can learn to cook up ideas or make judgments about different tastes but that we already use our intellects to explain how society works. Many social theorists want specifically to understand the taken-for- granted nature of social life: why it is so often unthinkingly orderly, routine, and generally predict-able naturalistic, in sociological terms. We are born into an existing society of things and people and into a world of ideas of what we should and shouldn"t think or do. We are told who we are by other people; our identity is not something we make by ourselves, wily- nelly.
