Two Cultures and the Real Thing 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology Stockholm, Sweden, July 5-9, 2005 António Pedro Dores, CIES/ISCTE, Lisboa,
Mainstream theoretical exclusions as subjects; not permanent social features “Violence” is thinked as pre-modern (old fashion concurrence) “Spirit” is thinked as religious concept for culture Irrational consciousness is a abnormal fact Embodiment as an exotic individual or groupal event
Marx´s theoretical concepts turn sociological subjects A > B A – inductive essentialist analysis Revolutionary violence Class spirit Class ideology Bottom-up politics B – deductive actionalist analysis Revolutionary technology Alienation spirit Scientific culture Participative politics
Durkheim´s inductive approach Holist comparative approach Taking seriously the concept of social consciousness Embodiment top-down approach: half-way
Weber´s people´s spirit vs deductive approach Social dimensions laborious scrutiny Spirit is a social background for status display (religious and mundane) Spirit of capitalism (as essentialist as Marxist analysis) is a neglected kind of analysis
Modern differentiation of states of spirit Holistic* dimensions and processes for modern life & modern dispositions Social Values Institutional Spirit Family Spirit Ideologies Morals Capitalism Spirit Politics Policy Entrepreneur boss Cognition Dogma * inductive/top-down + deductive-bottom-up + multidimentional configuration
Modernity & mankind tuning Different bodies and different minds tuning as multilevel societies. Everyone should be equally respected as embodiment machines (Legal liberal normative ideology). Embodiment applies differently to different dimensions & level, producing different cultures (free multi-culture cultures, WSF) How modernity come together with man kind? What are the actual meanings for freedom and equality? (bio-social approach)
Today´s organic solidarity (Schumpeter) Modernist creativity Warfare state Corporative culture Positive politics Modernization processes Welfare state Technocratic culture Compromise politics
Civilized modern macho dimentions (cf. Giddens) Personal feelings Social feelings Affection Tuning Economics Social policies Cultures Politics