SOCI 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Racialization, Ideal Type, Erving Goffman
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Lecture 1: in what sense is society, strictly speaking, a modern. Michel freitag presents society as an objective reality external to individuals. This definition does not only typify the autonomy of this order but also the modern individual"s relation to it. Throughout history man was subjected to another man either in the form of despotism or single rule. Thus man could not identify himself within the spectrum of the larger community in the same manner that modernism allow us to, but could only identify himself in his subordinate position to another man. Modernism brings forth a set of bureaucratized structures; institutions and lifestyles (social dimensions), and the totality (or the linkage) of those structures is believed to define society itself. Thus, in abstract pragmatics we identify society as the overarching unity of all the modern structures that, idealistically, would veer its structures toward its" sole legitimizing goal; fulfilling the needs of the human beings that shape it.
