L2: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
SELF AS PRODUCT OF MODERN SOCIETY
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
CLIFFORD GEERTZ: “THE STRUGGLE FOR ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY IS ONLY POSSIBLE IN MODERN SOCIETY WHERE________________ARE GRADUALLY REPLACED BY __________________ AND__________-; AND THE INTIMATE PERSONAL AFFILIATIONS ARE REPLACED BY EXCEEDINGLY IMPERSONAL ASSOCIATIONS BROUGHT ABOUT BY URBANIZED WAY OF LIFE.”
RELIGIO-THEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
RATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC CALCULATIONS
IN EARLIER TIMES
LOVE GREW MOSTLY IN THOSE STOLEN SPACES WHERE TRADITION WAS ____________
DEFIED OR CHALLENGED
IN EARLIER TIMES
______________DEFINED EVERYONE’S PLACE IN A GIVEN RELATIONSHIP; THERE WAS NOTHING TO CREATE OR NEGOTIATE
MORALITY
TODAY
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP MUST OFTEN WORK OUT THEIR OWN __________
ETHICS
TODAY OR EARLIER TIMES
-IRON GRIP OF POWER
-CARE FOR OR DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE OTHER AND SIMILAR LOVE MOTIVES ARE NOW THE LEGITIMIZING FORMULAE FOR DOMINATION.
TODAY
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (__________)
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
ARE BELIEFS THAT CANNOT BE PROVEN TO BE TRUE AND SOMETIMES CAN BE PROVEN FALSE, BUT ARE, NONETHELESS, NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN LIFE
NECESSARY FICTIONS
THEY ARE___________ BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BE PROVEN.
FICTION
THEY ARE NECESSARY BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM WE WOULD BE RUDDERLESS IN A WORLD CHAOS.
FICTION
-THE SELF IS A SET OF MOVING PARTS, WITH THE MOVEMENT BEING INFORMED BY ONE’S NEED AT ANY GIVEN TIME
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
-IN ONE SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE OUR ‘SELF IN THIS WAY. IN ANOTHER SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE OUR ‘SELF DIFFERENTLY.
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
SO EACH OF US IS MANY PEOPLE, OR IN RELATIONAL PARLANCE, WE ARE ________
MULTIPLE
IN SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
THE MANNER IN WHICH WE ORGANIZE OUR MULTIPLICITY SHAPES OUR CHARACTER, WHAT WE CALL ____________
SELF
-SELF IS A NARRATIVE, A TEXT WRITTEN AND REWRITTEN
POST-MODERN VIEW OF THE SELF