ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Roland Robertson, Imagined Community, Anthony Giddens
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Culture: practices of certain groups of people that they share. Different practices: ex. greeting one shaking hands, saying hi, fist pumps etc. Politics: strategies and actions that allow you to have political position, and having influence over other people. Personal advancement, relation between groups of ppl in organizations. 2. government: how gov"t create order and control- through laws and rules. Bio politics how you organize and control human beings. *individuals are reduced into stats (#"s, surveys, abstract calculations, census) 3. institutional: govt says you can and can"t do this, institutions train you to become a certain type of person that you follow rules not b/c you have to but because you have embodied them. Disciplinary practice discipline you to do something ex. Army, education (school; go into market economy and become something), marriage, religion (rituals) 4. politics of the self/ technologies of the self: things we take on to ourselves, not forced upon us. They make us into certain types of people ex.
