SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Decibel
14 Dec 2017
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Individual-first societies are composed of individuals who choose to act in concert to avoid chaos. problem: too much credit to individual choice. fails test of personal experience. Bourdieu: the two traditional theories are misunderstood and too limited. Practical actions built with discipline into the who of what we are. pg 35 we accomplish lots of practical things without even acknowledging it. The discipline of sociology discipline as in: an academic field of study. what we do to ourselves, including our bodies, by the continual and well-organized practice of some or another action. We were products of the then unquestioned dominant social things pg 44. Sociological imagination can help us question those things that have come to seem nat- ural. with discipline we can cultivate our sociological imaginations. Bourdieu most habitual practices are simultaneously the result of the force of social rules and of peoples own individual flourishes. As an individual i did something quiet on my own.
