How to analyze a modern society ? Flashcards
What are the main elements a political associations ?
head/ruler: to govern, warriors/arms : to defend themselves, consellors, messengers, agriculture.
What is the metaphor of the state
The state as a body: the image of a state as a unified corporate structure in which each element must play its part in an overall harmony
Individuals and groups within the state were meaningless except as the creatures of their society
What are the twi corporate bodies ?
- The church - sacerdotium
- The civil community - regnum
the state is the result of …
an equilibrium of divergent forces
What was the essence of modernity ?
the development of a new sentiment of individuality
What created migration ?
Societies
dissolution of traditional stabilities
Religious feelings – migration
The need to make money
The idea of going soldiering
Devoting one`s life to art
double level migration
to the new world
from the countryside to the cities
def of society
an autonomous mode of assocation
def culture
culture was a spiritual rather than a politicla body
the modern body politics thus tursn out to be not one but several bodies
state/politics, society, economy, culture, religion : These self-conscious associations set the scene for the dramas of modern political conflict
dominant motive for each bodies
The attempt to simplify these bodies by offering a single dominant motive for each
Homo politicus is driven by power
Homo economicus is driven by wealth
Homo religiosus is driven by faith
Homo socialis is driven by fame (?)
Society stands for solidarity, economy for division
self interest concept
The duty which an individualist society imposes upon its members to be self-moving and to avoid becoming a burden on others for their needs and resources – not the moral vice of selfishness
