ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peer Pressure, Speech Community, Academic Dishonesty
17 Sep 2016
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See the world through the eyes of others. Develop tools for managing and appreciating differences in a world of increasing cultural complexity. Understand how people (different than yourself and your culture) live. Understanding the self through the detour of the other. paul ricouer: reflect on yourself and the extent to which you are culturally produced, understanding your constraint = liberating. Anthropological perspective: college life: university world views. Students vs faculty vs administration: worldview: an encompassing picture of reality based on assumptions about . Real life (adulthood, work: rite of passage. Re-aggregation: emergence back into society, new social status marked by. Transition between separation and re-aggregation a ceremony (ex. Ambiguity of identity, exploration, time to reinvent oneself. Anti-structure: things you were used to at home don"t exist anymore. Can be destructive or liberating: communitas. Live in unstructured or minimally structured communities. Tension between work and play: getting good grades vs having a good social life.
