Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Week 4: Emile Durkheim / Gabriel Tarde: Society in the face of climate…
Week 4: Emile Durkheim / Gabriel Tarde: Society in the face of climate change.
session 7: Durkheim
the division of labour in society
the elementary forms of religious life
religion is not defined by content but by form
symbolic function: rituals or neede to make collective consciousness
that is why you don't just change a celebration
what is a social fact?
the debate between tarde and Durkheim
Session 8
The great derangement, climate change. Amitav Gosh
(Western) Modernity
globalization
Faulty linear interpretation of history
Great dreangement
Systemic and contant change
imitation
lifestyle
consumption
ideas/ progress/ status quo
contending soical norms and interpretations
alienation/ capitalism
estrangement
internal contradictions
Disenchantment of the world
fragmentation of value
industrialisation
rationalization as proxy of sucess
social facts
relation to nature/ education
authority
legitimate authority -> goes back to rationality.
durkheim's key ideas!
modernization -> change in the dynamics that binds society together AKA solidarity (it changed drastically with industrialization)
mechanic (before) intensity> density
organic (new)-> anonimity/ rationality/ social bond/ reflexive (creation of a social contract) intensity< density
/ modern changes affect the dynamics that binds society together.
division of labour: social organisation (has always existed), in modern societies this principle is functional interdependence)
there is always a collective consciousness throught the division labour
division of labour creates solidarity
In modern societies: the social bon is weaker -> anomie (absence of binding norms to society)
What binds society together?
social rules protects social solidarity
Tarde's main ideas
without us society does not exist
society is an interconnectiveness, mimication, imitations (communication
amitav gosh
multiple sides in the human history of cimate change "our lives and our choices are enframed in a pattern of history that seems to leave us nowhere to turn but towards our self-annihilation"
definitions
modern societies -> operate under a contract,
social facts:
shared thoughts and feelings
expressed in language & symbols
transmitted by means of socialisation & education
by being shared they have an existance beyond each individual's mind
naturalised or become natural parrt of each individual as member of society
Tarde vs durkheim
tarde: interaction, imitative reproduction creates society/ for tarde interactions are not based on something above us.