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Soc 1 Lecture 3
Tuesday, October 6, 2009Fall 2009
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The Institutional Construction of the SelfI. Announcements:http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/mohr/classes/soc1/ (Note: If you have been using my personal web page as a portal that link will no longer work).
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The Institutional Construction of the Self III. What is an Institutional Centered
Approach?1. Berger and Berger. What is an
institution? (The Case of Language).
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The Institutional Construction of the Self III. What is an Institutional Centered
Approach.2. Examples of Institutions:
- A hospital- A prison- A family- A Marriage- A handshake
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
3. (Berger & Berger) Language as THE fundamental institution:
A. It has Externality: Experienced as outside of us. (Like trees, tables,
& telephones). Speaking is a “throwing out” from inside to outside. English is outside.
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
B. Institutions Objectify Reality (makes things concrete, reduces flux) makes stability.
• correct vs. incorrect English• seems inevitable• Piaget “the sun”
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
C. Have Coercive Power:- Cannot wish it away- transgressions are
sanctioned
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
4. Language as THE fundamental institution:
D. Has moral Authority:- Right to legitimacy- moral indignation
is involved
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
E. Has Historicity:- Preceded the individual- Will outlast the individual
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The Institutional Construction of the Self III. What is an Institutional Centered
Approach.4. Duranti: • Yes, Language is key institution• More than this, language
fundamentally orders our experience• language shapes thought. • Cultural Relativism Hypothesis.
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?5. Duranti: Language and CultureA. Linguistics & Anthropology.
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
Emphasized need to knowthe language to understanda people
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
Boas: Our Capacity for being “human” is defined by our capacity for abstraction.
Our capacity for abstraction is define by our ability to use language to represent the world.
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
Boas most famous example Eskimo language used to represent snow: Aput: Snow on groundQana: Falling snowPiqsirpoq: Drifting snowQimuqsug: Snowdrift
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
Boas point: Language comes interactively from experiences of the world.
But also, our experience of the world is shaped by our ability to name it, classify it, represent it.
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
B. Linguistics Relativity Hypothesis akaSapir/Whorf Hypothesis.
Edward Sapir (1884-1939)student of Boasfocused on internal logic of language systems
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
B. Linguistics Relativity Hypothesis akaSapir/Whorf Hypothesis.
Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941)chemical engineer (interest inlanguage) studied Hopi Language (esp. grammar):Cryptotype (Covert Category)(languages both enable/constrain)
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self II. What is an Institution?
Sapir/Whorf Hypothesis:
Argued how we experience fundamental physical, material, spiritual, emotional states, conditioned on a linguistically given “world view”
How Time happens. How Space is experienced, etc.
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The Institutional Construction of the Self 6. Indeed, some argue the “self” itself is an institution. (Individual Centered vs. Institutional Centered...)
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950):
A. The “Self” a cultural construct — varies....
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The Institutional Construction of the Self Marcel Mauss. 1938. “A Category of the Human Mind: The Notion of Person; the Notion of Self.”
• French Anthropologist (student/nephew) of Emile Durkheim• Looks at differing concept of the person (or the self (moi))
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The Institutional Construction of the Self 6. Indeed, some argue the self itself is an institution. if the self varies — what varies?
Human existence is fundamentally conditioned by our understanding of our existence.
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The Institutional Construction of the Self C. If the self varies — what varies?
• Ideas vary• (but) Ideas are linked w/ the physical• Ideas of our selves (as selves)• Charles Taylor,1989 Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.• sense of ourselves as beings w/ inner depths, that we are ʻselvesʼ
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• “Individuation” always exists“In no way do I maintain that there has ever been a tribe, a language, in which the term “I”, “me” has never existed, or that it has not expressed something clearly represented...there has never existed a human being who has not been aware, not only of his body...his individuality, both spiritual & physical.”
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The Institutional Construction of the Gendered Self
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The Institutional Construction of the Self
A. Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) — Self as embodied in very strong “role” expectations (Zuni)
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Zuni (Pueblo Indians)• Limited # forenames / clan• An exact role each on the “cast-list” of the clan, expressed by that name• each name assd. w/ animal totem• right leg of animal, or left foot• each has moral, hierarchical value• never greet as brother, always “elder brother” (etc.) reflect ranking
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Clan = certain # persons• Each is to act out the prefigured totality of the clan• Each acts out not just individuals responsibility, but cosmological meaning of the clan, the totem, etc.• The “person” totally absorbed into identity vis-a-vis clan
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• What is at stake — very existence of the clan, the animal totem, all all ancestors reincarnated in rightful successors (same forename)• Role takes precedence over the self
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D. Roman Society (“personae”)— “citizen” changes rights and expectations and begins to change experience ofselfhood
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Romans — The person as citizen• the person more than organizational fact, or a right to assume a role• Instead, a basic fact of law “personae” (a mask)• The person becomes an entity with “Rights”
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Romans — Earlier organized as clans w/ totems (Romulus/Remus)• A revolution by plebs was decisive• All freeman of Rome were citizens (not slaves)• equal rights before laws• New logic of naming emerges• Relation to ancestors changes, as reflecting images and ideals
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The Institutional Construction of the Self II. Mauss:
E. Christian (“personne”) — Dualisms ofself and a more complex moral calculus
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Christians (personne)• from persona (“a man clad in a condition”) to personne (the human “person”)• Moral complexity of achievement organized around complex dualism of selfhood
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• Dualism of Self Soul/Body Sin/Grace Life/Death• An internal Calculus of Action Free Will Predestination Body as Eternal
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The Institutional Construction of the Self II. :
F. Luther & Calvin — More personalrelationship with God (even more complex internal moral dilemmas).
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The Institutional Construction of the Self II. Max Weber: (1864-1920) A consequence of Calvinism the conditions lead to the creation of a particular kind of self (aʼla Benjamin Franklin) More and more selves of this type leads to change in overall society (Rational Capitalism)
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Max Weber. “The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism”
1. The Revolution of Martin Luther (1517)
• “The Calling” • Against the Religious Elite (Catholics)• Personal Relationship w/ God
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Max Weber. “The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism”
2. John Calvin (Geneva, 1540ʼs)
• Against “Moral Bank Account”• Predestination (creates anxiety)• The “Chosen”• A “Godly Life”
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Max Weber. “The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism”
3. Traditional vs. Rational Capitalism• Puritan Ethic (honesty, deny pleasures of the flesh, long, hard work)• Benjamin Franklin • “A penny Saved if a Penny earned”• “Waste not want not”• “Time is Money”
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The Institutional Construction of the Self D. Marcel Mauss.
• From the Person to the Self (Psychological Being)• Enlightenment Philosophies broke from giveness of the soul, to the free calculus of the cognitive, calculating individual. Mind/body dualism• Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
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The Institutional Construction of the Self II. :G. The Enlightenment — from moral dilemmas of self to scientific dilemmas of the universe Cogito Ergo Sum—I think therefore I am, (René Descartes, 1596-1650)
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The Institutional Construction of the Self II. Review:
H. Mauss: Evolution of The Western Self. Main idea — Society creates conditions according to which room for us to sculpt our own identity. (Limited —> Extensive)
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