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Discussion Board Three: The Concept of Social Structure

Explain what a structure is. How can this concept help us understand human societies? Explain how two of the following theorize social structure: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Hayek.

The concept of structure (Piaget)

1. A structure is a system of transformations

2. Involves

• wholeness

• transformation

• self regulation

Thinking about each dimension of social reality in structural terms

1. physical systems (gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear, statistical mechanical, thermodynamic ...)

2. biological (physiological, especially neurological and ecological systems ...)

3. technological systems: using energy to transform matter into ...

4. economic systems: price, value ...

5. political systems: power (organized money, people, mana ...)

6. cultural systems (organized signs, meanings ...)

7. psychological systems (organized ideas and passions ...)

Discussion Board Four: Psychological Theory

Explain how Freud and Fromm understand the socialization process. Which approach do you think is more adequate and why?

Discussion Board Five: Linguistic Relativity

Take and defend a position on the question of linguistic relativity.

Discussion board six: Choose a painting or sculpture and show how understanding the elements of art and iconography can help us understand it better.

Discussion Board Seven: Music

What is music? What are its principal elements? How do different musical systems embody and convey the principles of the cultures that produce them?