SOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White God, Attention, Edward Said
19 Sep 2016
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People generally keep a surface interaction and if more interaction appears it will be odd. We have a fixed pattern of interaction that we would not notice until something is wrong. Communication strategies altered when interacting with strangers: founding father of interactionism. Martin luther king: charisma built through giving the right cue to clap (build up through three) Culture and ethnocentrism: patterns of collective perception (people see thing in the same way) The colonial mind: savages (white culture is superior) / white man"s burden (civilize the people) / christian mission: question: are we all the same ? if not, how deep is the difference. Ethnography (ethno: people + graphy: to represent: bronislaw malinowski: anthropology living in a tribe and record their life nonchalantly. Captain cook 1728-1779: marshall sahlins islands of history.
