SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Georg Simmel, Moral Authority, Alexis De Tocqueville
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* work your imagination: on today, the differences of (rules of) fashion between dt toronto and small towns. * the importance of codes, belonging, distance, they are established from. Context which we understand the others. (in terms of dress) idea of fashion. Modernity restrain on eccentricity because modernity ties with democracy. * signals that people send out, differences between the dt toronto and small towns --> distances we establishing from others in terms of dress, in terms of fashion. * think about the fashion and lifestyle and personal identity. * in terms of capacity to independently express ourselves (& give our opinions) and obey. The reading is focusing on the new metropolis (the new big cities). Western cities that have railway, electricity and lightsetc. New phenomenon, concentration of people, migration from the countryside to cities. -> what consequences of personality in these situation. First question is kind of filling in the blank space: pp.
