Tue 25 Dec 2001 00:01
Names of lifeguards:
deci, darin, jose, juan (pool maintenance), audrey
front desk women:
Aana, B?
Sexy old french swimmer:?

from
Introduction to sociology
norman goodman
1992
p 36
Cultural diversity
Societies differ in their values and in the norms specifying appropriate behavior. Ruth Benedict (1934) described two polar opposites: a Dionysian culture of frenzied ctivity, heightened emotion, and individual aggrandizement through competition (the Kwakiutl of Vancouver island in British Columbia) and an Apollonian culture of quiet reserve, sobriety, and moderation that emphasized the importance of the collective over the individual (the Zuni of New Mexico).

p39
American Cultural Themes
Sociologist Robin Williams (1970) suggested that despite great cultural diversity in the United States, there are a limited number of basic values that comprise its cultural emphasis.

Americans, Williams concludes, place great emphasis on achievement and success, especially in their occupational roles. They are highly competitive and see success as a measure of self-worth. Activity and work are also important to ameicans. Americans are generally frenetic, busily engaged in some activity or another.

Occupational activities are the center of their waking lives and of their conceptions of self.

Americans valuse efficiency and practicality. The only philosophical system indigenous to the US is pragmatism, a philosophy that focuses on the practcal consequences of a person's behavior.

Americans are great believers in progress. They are generally optimistic about life, certain that things will get better.

considerable number of philanthropic organizations. Cherish freedom and democracy. racism and feelings of group superiority.
how do bio forces influence social life.

from:
Modern Sociological Theory
George Ritzer
5th ed 2000
p 21
The roots and nature of the theories of karl marx
GWF Hegel 1770-1831
Hegel is also associated with the philosophy of idealism, which emphasizes the importance of the mind and mental products rather than the material world [not my orientation; focus on origination of ideas in the mind postulating improvements in the external world]. It is the social definition of the physical and material worlds that matters most, not those worlds themselves [this just sounds like sloppy work..]. In its extreme form, idealism asserts that only the mind and psychological constructs exist.
Idealists emphasize not only mental processes but also the ideas produced by these processes.
Hegel paid a great deal of attention to the development of such ideas, especially to what he referred to as the "spirit" of society.

In fact, Hegel offered a kind of evolutionary theory of the world in idealistic terms.
sensory understanding
self consciousness, self understanding
with self-knowledge and self-understanding, people began to understand they could become more than they were.
a contradiction developed between what people were and what they felt they could be.
The resolution
Individuals come to realize that their ultimate fulfillment lies in the development and the expansion of the spirit of society as a whole.
understanding of things understanding of self understanding of their place in the larger scheme of things
young hegelians

p22
ideas that have overcome our intellect and conquered our conviction, ideas to which reason has riveted our conscience, are chains from which one cannot break loose, demons that one can only overcome by submitting to them. marx 1842, 1977:20

our complete agreement in all theoretical fields.

p24
Feuerbach
people set god over and above themselves, with the result that they become alienated from god and project positive characteristics onto god and reduce themselves to being imperfect, powerless, and sinful.
This kind of religion must be overcome, aided by a materialist philosophy in which people, not religion, became their own highest object, ends in themselves.
real people are deified by a materialist philosophy.
Feuergbach failed to emphasize praxis, practical activity.

As marx put it, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it" (cited in Tucker, 1970:109).
dialectical materialism which focuses on dialectical relationships inthe material world.

-- refresh- german action theorists, in psychology? praxiologists?
-perhaps review these.
weber individual stand up to bureaucracy.

why did capitalism develop in the west and not in the rest of the world? p 31

When/how did the transition from students paying lecturers per lecture attended occur?

p445 habermas : what does he mean by the life-world? system, exactly? system..


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