SOCIOL 1 Chapter : notes from discussion and textbook
13 Mar 2014
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31: samuel huntington"s pov on post 9-11 debate: real war will be a civilizational war. All muslims are bad (256: bernard lewis" pov on post 9-11 debate: neoconservative; there are good secular. Muslims (aka westernized) and bad fundamentalist muslims and the west needs to distinguish between them (256: both samuel and bernard share 2 assumptions, 1. Modern people make their own culture their culture is a creative act and it changes historically. Pre-modern peoples have an unchanging, ahistorical culture, one they carry along with them wear their culture like a badge: 2. You can read people"s politics from their culture (culture talk: labels, good muslim = pro-american, bad muslim = anti-american, political islam, contemporary, modern political islam developed in response to colonialism.
