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Daryl Bambic

Chapter 02 - Sociological Imagination - 6 views

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Imagination Sociological

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  • The national cost of a gallon of gas, the War in the Middle East, the repressed economy, the trend of having too few females in the 18-24 year old singles market, and the ever-increasing demand for plastic surgery are just a few of the social facts at play today
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Social facts are experiences as 'outside' of an individual's control. 
  • but we rarely find a way to significantly impact them back.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      They impact us but we don't (or very rarely) have an impact on them.
  • False Social Conscious which  is an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Do you think teens live this way...ignorant of social facts?
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      Absolutely i think that teens live by the following : Ignorance is bliss. And can you blame them? Can you blame any one that thinks this way for that matter. In a sense i wish i could be ignorant to problems present in society because I A) Wouldn't feel so threatened by things i cant control and B) I wouldn't feel morally or ethically at fault for the decisions of my nation.
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  • real power of the sociological imagination is found in how you and I learn to distinguish between the personal and social levels in our own lives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      This is the reason that this sociological imagination is important.  How does this resemble Sam Richard's idea of 'radical empathy'?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that it relates because the more you understand the social facts, the more you'll have sociological imagination and the more you'll have radical empathy.
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
       
      people can be selfish and only think about themselves. then there are the people that care about about other people and try to imagine what if they had the same problems for example there family
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal troubles relate with each other. Sometimes things such as our environment can affect our "personal troubles" such as, obesity, depression, poverty, etc. 
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles radical empathy in the fact that they both require a person to be able to recognize social facts.
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
       
      These two things are intertwined because many of out personal trouble is caused by these social facts that we are powerless against.
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that this relates because in a sense, we all need to know whats really going on even if it isn't necessarily things that are reported on our daily news channels. I think the relation is that we need to learn to think about things that we wouldn't nesceseraly like to be true, much like how most people find it uneasy to step into the shoes of Iraqi war prisoners.
    • Alyssa Cohen
      Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
       
      Personal troubles and social facts are very closely related. If you have a sociological imagination, you can see the social facts in different situations or different parts of the world, which makes you more understanding. That is where the radical empathy ties in.
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
       
      They share the same thought of looking at the situation from another perspective. "Putting yourself in their shoes". Radical empathy plays an important role, it allows us to see how they feel. 
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal problems are related in some kind of way. Radical empathy is the relationship and getting to understand the difference between you and other people. 
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
       
      By understanding empathy and the sociological imagination, we become a step closer in having a much broader, educated and compassionate picture of the world we live in, all six billion of us. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles the idea because you must be open to put yourself in the other peoples shoes and to understand the bigger picture and that includes understanding the different players in the games
    • sydney goldman
      sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Theres a fine difference between social facts and sociological imagination and both are believed to change us into the people we are today. However, in order to understand not only the way in which you are personally effected but how the other societies are effected by there own sociological imagination/social facts. rational empathy come into play when we begin to understand the social facts of the people that your own personal fats have taught you to be bling too.
    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
       
      They ressemble each other because in both, they require a person to be aware and take into account the social facts. 
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social imagination and radical empathy relate because you need to understand social facts to have radical empathy. 
  • C. Wright Mills (1916-1962
  • neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"
  • Troubles”
  • Issues"
  • 50 percent of all college students in the country never graduate, we call that a larger social issue.
  • Does sociology provide personal and larger social insight
  • Be aware of the three-strike issue
  • Know which factors you can control
  • larger social factors that have historically contributed to these patterns
  • brief spike in divorce after World War II
  • It was the highest rate of marriages, highest rate of births (The Baby Boom began in 1946
  • ivorce rates surged in 1946 as all the soldiers returned home having been changed by the trauma, isolation from their families,  and challenges of the war
  • Divorces tended to follow wars
  • Divorces continue to be high during economic prosperity
  • ecline during economic hardships.
  • abundance of single women
  • urban
  • Scientists have never identified a “cause” for divorce.  But, they have clearly identified risk factors.
  • enslaved to those force
  • They still impact you, and you can follow Mill’s ideas and manage as best you can within your power concerning consequences of these forces
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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  • adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
Jake Izenberg

The Learning Generalist: March 2011 - 0 views

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      Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
       
      this site has a video on my topic the contains good information. Not only is there a video, but under it contains more information on my subject. In this information there's interesting facts and history on what I'm learning for TF5M 
  • society
  • anthropologist
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  • exploring the effects of new media on society and culture
  • Facebook
  • The knowledge is all around people and a lot of advanced technology is so ubiquitous that it makes connection, organising, sharing and learning easier than ever before
  • new culture and environment
  • they mediate relationships. Media changes, relationships change and the culture changes.
  • media helped the people there in a big way
  • For example
  • The other examples
  • Media is therefore not just tools and communication
  • how important media was
  • Think about how we watch TV. We watch TV for the content, but the content drives relationships. We watch TV while at dinner, we congregate in groups to watch sport. These are the conversations that create our culture
  • Now this kind of stuff should be showing it's effect on education, but it doesnt - 43% of students are bored, up from 20% in the 80s
  • a brief history of the phrase
  • Let's analyse it over time. In the pre-60s "Whatever" meant "That's what I meant". After the 60s it became synonymous with "I don't care" or a "Meh...".
  • Whatever
  • it's a way for people to raise their personality and not be indistinguishable. More people want to be important today - more people want to be the new American Ido
  • So why is American Idol popular
  • From the late 90s to now, people have adopted the "I'll do what I want" meaning for "Whatever". It's an empowered generation and free culture
  • It's a very broad cultural phenomenon which is driving a search for identity and recognition
  • We all need identity and recognition and the media keeps bombarding us with messages of the kind of people we should become. The search for the authentic self leads us towards self-centered modes of self-fulfillment and disagreement on several things - values, views, approaches. We're more disengaged and more fragmented. The new media revolution is creating the cultural background for this kind of a change.
  • micro-learning
  • Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
     
    TF5M    info + video 
Daryl Bambic

Cultural Anthropology/Introduction - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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  • nthropology is holistic[[1]], comparative, field based, and evolutionary.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      As a social science, anthropology is the ultimate interdisciplinary 'science'.  It is holistic and comparative.  
  • five sub-disciplines
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  • Archeology: The study and interpretation of ancient humans, their history and culture, through examination of the artifacts and remains they left behind
  • Cultural Anthropology:(also: sociocultural anthropology, social anthropology, or ethnology) studies the different cultures of humans and how those cultures are shaped or shape the world around them
  • Biological Anthropology
  • using genetics, evolution, human ancestry, primates, and the ability to adapt.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      Biological anthropology is the discipline that uses Darwin's theory of evolution to study man, primates and all of life.
  • Linguistic Anthropology: examines human languages
  • pplied anthropology is simply the practice of applying anthropological theory and or methods from any of the fields of Anthropology to solve human problems
  • Culture is:
  • Learned
  • Patterned
  • •Shared
  • •Adaptive
  • Symbolic
  • At its most basic level, the difference between Culture and culture is in the way they are defined. C
  • lture with a capital C refers to the ability of the human species to absorb and imitate patterned and symbolic ideas that ultimately further their survival
  • Familial culture
  • Every family is different, and every family has its own culture
  • icro or Subculture
  • distinct groups within a larger group that share some sort of common trait, activity or language that ties them together and or differentiates them from the larger group
  • clique
  • Mexican-Americans
  • micro-culture would be the Japanese hip hop
  • Cultural universals
  • Claude Levi-Strauss
  • gender roles, the incest taboo, religious and healing ritual, mythology, marriage, language, art, dance, music, cooking, games, jokes, sports, birth and death
  • tual ceremonies
  • f cultural relativism deny the existence or reduce the importance of cultural universals
  • Language and cognition
  • Society
  • Myth, Ritual, and aesthetics
  • Technology
  • This problem of right and wrong in terms of crossing cultural lines is a big one.
  • intrinsic cultural distinctions that are meaningful to the members of a given society, often considered to be an 'insider’s' perspective.
  • reate bias o
  • Enculturation
  • This process is the way in which we obtain and transmit culture.
  • In the !Kung Bushman tribe they look down upon people who think highly of themselves and who are arrogant. To avoid these characteristics, each child was raised to put down and mock others when they do things such as hunting and other activities.
  • Cultural Transmission
  • Symbols and Culture
  • Symbols are the basis of culture. A symbol is an object, word, or action that stands for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally defined
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Cultural Relativism
  • Ethnography
  • Deconstructing Race and Racism
  • Race was created long ago as a tool to separate humans
  • Deconstructing the social concept of race has been a major interest of Cultural Anthropology at least since Franz Boas's work on race and immigration in the early 1900's.
  • Race is not biological but it's supposed to be a way to classify biological differences by grouping people according to different characteristics that they have
  • There is no biological part of race. It is strictly a concept created by humans to try to better understand differences between us
  • Technology
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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  • I see America's rhetorical and "virtual" integration, as reflected on TV, as a sign of progress, even while I find the NAACP's threat to force it by lawsuit absurd.
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      This website explains us how skin colour discrimination is viewed from a black person in our society. There is history to the reason that they can't see us (whites) as we are and vice virsa. Blacks really are the ones suffering the most which is something completely wrong and it is called inequality. 
Chrissy Le

Animal Minds - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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intelligence communication animals brain language evolution science consciousness

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  • ublished: March 2008
  • By Virginia Morell
  • Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University
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  • She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language.
  • They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree.
  • many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought.
  • controversial.
  • How, then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable of thinking—that it is able to acquire information about the world and act on it?
  • Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others' motives, imitating others, and being creative.
  • chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by watching an experienced fish perform the task.
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      Reminds me of the video we had to watch for homework, very interesting, and great information for my TFAD project!
  • Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have been taught to use sign language and symbols to communicate with us, often with impressive results.
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  • © 2011 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
Jake Izenberg

New media and culture | TAB - 1 views

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Culture and New Media

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  • The goal as stated was to show »current and future impacts of the development of new media on the concept of culture, cultural policy, the cultural industry and cultural activities
  • sociological focus
  • understanding of the media
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  • socio-cultural
  • two levels
  • first level
  • second level
  • media are understood as the socio-technical and cultural practices of distributing and storing information which are used to shape communication and interaction and so help determine collective perception and experience in the everyday world
  • New Media« are media based technically on digitalisation, miniaturisation, data compression, networking and convergence.
  • transform the modes of communication in a way which departs from the established familiar forms of interpersonal communication, either direct or via media.
  • overarching trends
  • we use the findings of the unique series of international surveys of mass communication
  • current media development
  • Competition through supplementation is increasingly turning into predatory competition for increasingly scarce time budgets
  • (PCs with multimedia capability, Internet, mobile radio
  • different levels of Internet use
  • cultural content
  • newspaper reading
  • TV viewing
  • groups and humanity as a whole
  • Changes in readership and reading behaviour
  • dramatic changes in reading strategies
  • reading motivation
  • This threatens to erode a cultural technique which is the basis not only for reading books and newspapers but also for using the New Media.
  • Trends in scientific concepts of culture
  • example
  • necessary to look at historical processes of change in the understanding of culture
  • social sciences
  • In future we can in any case expect greater individualisation and differentiation in media use patterns, the »average user« will ultimately become a construct remote from reality.
  • almost general expansion of the concept of culture
  • a renewed interest in the culture of the individual
  • between cultural and media development
  • Recently the history of concepts of culture in social sciences
  • philosophical
  • overcoming colonialism
  • This makes cross-border movements, interculturalism and hybridisation more important for cultural theory; media development, transnational cultural relationships, intercultural exchange and migration become even more important topics for research.
  • Cultural development, New Media and media culture
  • the media is mostly given outstanding and still growing cultural significance
  • recent debates
  • finally the increase in the importance for the understanding of culture of new (or what are perceived as new) cultural communities, groups and contexts.
  • communications technologies
  • the current status of the concept of culture in science and politics is not a fashionable phenomenon, but rather »evidence of a significant social development«, a »development from the domination of things to a domination of knowledge«
  • There is disagreement inter alia about whether cultural development is tending to blend with media development (or already has blended with it) and whether cultural theory should accordingly be primarily (or even exclusively) pursued in terms of media cultural theory
  • Media markets: an overview
  • Cultural globalisation and the New Media
  • In dealing with the interactions between the change in concepts of culture and recent media development, the mutually impacting trends of individualisation and cultural globalisation become issues leading to further depths. Both issues are extremely important for the current debate on media development.
  • individualisation« or »personalisation
  • media services with a customised nature
  • sociological theories of individualisation as such. Besides socio-structural individualisation promoted inter alia by decoupling class membership and consumption, processes like isolation/privatisation and autonomisation – in other words, competent coping with media-based growth in cultural options for choice and action – should be noted (A. Honneth)
  • economic globalisation
  • cultural globalisation
  • show on the one hand that the development of the New Media has aroused (often vague-seeming) fears and hopes, while euphoria over technology and pessimism over culture are relatively evenly divided between the political and social trends. Conversely, there is also the tendency in these debates to pursue older scientific arguments and view the development of the New Media in the context of specific media-historical, social-theoretical or philosophical considerations.
  • unanimous agreement that the New Media, and particularly the Internet, are of central importance
  • The current crisis in traditional concepts of culture is apparently closely connected with the recent development in the media, as the New Media change the cultural significance of physical proximity and separation
  • Connected individuals – according to a widespread view – grow through interactive and communicative actions beyond the limits of local communities and national societies, and are able to participate in transnational cultural exchanges and make themselves felt as an individual, a member of a group or of an international movement.
  • economic and cultural globalisation are highly controversial issues in political and scientific debate
  • Content
  • Communication channels
  • Terminals and associated components
  • Digital interactive TV
  • Mobile radio and UMTS
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
       
      Goog information 
  • The three basic studies carried out for TAB
  • Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
     
    teacher for 5 minutes   This is a great article for my topic and has a lot of information that is useful for me. There are examples, studies and more. The lay out is well done and it is organized well. 
Daryl Bambic

anthropologyatwic / The Nacirema - 0 views

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  • Horace Miner
  • magical beliefs and practices of the Nacirema present such unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go
  • North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antille
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  • highly developed market economy
  • devoted to economic pursuits
  • activity is the human body
  • human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease
  • one or more shrines devoted to this purpose
  • more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses
  • ituals
  • re private
  • box or chest which is built into the wall
  • harms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live
  • ecured from a variety of specialized practitioners
  • medicine men
  • ubstantial gifts
  • write them down in an ancient and secret language
  • charm-box
  • mall fon
  • bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablutio
  • holy-mouth-men.
  • pathological horror of and fascination with the mout
  • supernatural influence on all social relationships
  • oral and moral
  • For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber.
  • mouth-rite
  • small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[7]
  • holy-mouth-man once or twice a year
  • f sadism is involved
  • This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument.
  • As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour
  • latipso
  • "that is where you go to die
  • Psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is suddenly lost upon entry into the latipso
  • aversion to the natural body and its functions.
  • fat people thin
  • thin people fat.
  • used to make women's breasts larger
  • inhuman hypermammary development are so idolized that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee
  • Natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. Intercourse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act. Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse to certain phases of the moon.
  • magic-ridden people
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