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Leigh Gantman

Human Greed - 0 views

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shared by Leigh Gantman on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Why are we so greedy? Well, possessions can bring us pleasure. And pleasure can become addictive. If we mistakenly associate pleasure with happiness, it's not surprising that we pursue it without end. Another reason for greed is fear. We're afraid there is only so much material to go around, and if we're not quick enough, someone else may snatch what we want. Although fear can cause greed, ironically, greed causes more fear. For as Chuang Tzu wrote," He who considers wealth a good thing can never bear to give up his income; he who considers eminence a good thing can never bear to give up his fame. He who has a taste for power can never bear to hand over authority to others. Holding tight to these things, such men shiver with fear; should they let them go, they would pine in sorrow." Isn't it true that if our desires are endless, our cares and fears will be too?
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      the credibility of this site is questionable. Be prepared to defend it.
  • Leigh Gantman on 06 Oct 10
     
    This passage brings up a very interesting point. In fact, it gets me wondering if greed and fear have a relation. It also mentions that possessions bring us pleasure and we get attached to that feeling. These are some theories as to why humans have greedy habits. Some fear that if they don't grab a certain possession quick enough, another person will get to it faster and leave them empty handed. The quote by Chuang Tzu is also very relevant to my study. It is essentially stating that once you have reached the highest, best point of something, it is difficult to go back to old ways. This is what makes people greedy; the climb to get to that highest, best point.
Daryl Bambic

Microsoft Word - A--sbk.durkheim.doc.pdf - 1 views

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suicide Durkheim

shared by Daryl Bambic on 25 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • till, he insists that the external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief 3or a choice.
  • Durkheim employs this characterization of social facts in The Rules to demonstrate that individuals are social beings, inextricably woven into the fabric of social processes
  • one cannot understand individual behavior without understanding the social forces acting upon that individual.
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  • Each individual is born into a socially-organized network that both teaches and requires behavior and conforming beliefs
  • most part, individuals do not feel or recognize these coercive forces, and may attribute their choices and beliefs to internal processes
  • oercive influence of social organization on our morality and behavior both by describing what we are born into
  • e external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief
  • born into familie
  • onstrained in every respect by the organization of law
  • ustoms of the societies in which we live. The businessman who tries to conduct business outside of the organized economy will fail
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  • eligious leaders teach us what to believe and what to think about right and wrong
  • 4Similarly, the lack of strongly aligned family structures or political structure signals a dangerous lack of integration.
  • challenges the view held by psychologists of his time, who maintained that suicide could be explained by individual psychological characteristic
  • This pursuit of knowledge, however, is not the cause of suicide rates to rise. Rather, it signals a lack of integration of the religious society’s norms and values.
  • happy equilibrium
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 25 Oct 15
       
      A functionalist perspective
  • belongs to a weakly cohesive society, and experiences a change in regulation, usually during a period of rapid change or crisis.
  • or a choice
  • s he describes, for society to regulate individuals’ cohesion into the society, “the passions first must be limited” (248). This is usually done with an establishment of social codes, laws and rules.
  • Anomic suicide
  • either integrated nor regulate
  • e wants sociology to be more scientific and move from the realm of subjectivity to objectivity
  • primacy of the “social fact.
  • Anomic Suicide
  • Daryl Bambic on 25 Oct 15
     
    Some background information about Durkheim's idea of the social fact of suicide.
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