From d024907d68cb402e5cd69a05d577d5701e8cb1bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: p Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 05:23:14 -0500 Subject: geopolitics add, lots of tweaks, lots of madness --- database_knowledgebase.otx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'database_knowledgebase.otx') diff --git a/database_knowledgebase.otx b/database_knowledgebase.otx index 271af49..3072e20 100644 --- a/database_knowledgebase.otx +++ b/database_knowledgebase.otx @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Turoff and Hiltz refer to Simmel's category of \dq{the stranger} to account for \Q{The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us\ld\ Objectivity\ld is a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement.} \Qs{quoted in Turoff and Hiltz, op. cit. p. 28.} -In the EIES conference Gillette explores this contradiction further by employing (via Talcott Parsons) Weber's polar concepts: \e{gemeinschaft} vs. \e{gesellschaft}. \e{Gemeinschaft} designates the affective dimensions of traditional societies, and \e{gesellschaft} designates the institutional, bureaucratic forms of industrial society. Habermas, reformulating Weber, distinguishes between purposive-rational action (associated with technical rules, context-free language and productive forces) and communicative action or symbolic interaction (associated with social norms, intersubjectively shared ordinary language, and emancipation).\foots{Jürgen Habermas, \essaytitle{Technology and Science as `Ideology'} in \booktitle{Toward a Rational Society} (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970). See also \booktitle{Knowledge and Human Interests} (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971). Trent Schroyer's essay in this issue develops arguments based on Habermas; Schroyer's essay is a distinct American development, however, with formation of specific advocacy strategies.} Purposive-rational action is the determining form of modernization which has led to the possible transition to a \dq{post-industrial society.} Daniel Bell writes: +In the EIES conference Gillette explores this contradiction further by employing (via Talcott Parsons) Weber's polar concepts: \e{gemeinschaft} vs. \e{gesellschaft}. \e{Gemeinschaft} designates the affective dimensions of traditional societies, and \e{gesellschaft} designates the institutional, bureaucratic forms of industrial society. Habermas, reformulating Weber, distinguishes between purposive-rational action (associated with technical rules, context-free language and productive forces) and communicative action or symbolic interaction (associated with social norms, intersubjectively shared ordinary language, and emancipation).\foots{Jürgen Habermas, \essaytitle{Technology and Science as `Ideology'} in \booktitle{Toward a Rational Society} (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970). See also \booktitle{Knowledge and Human Interests} (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971). Trent Schroyer's essay in this issue {\Dejavu\sans\rm (Page \pgref[schroyer].)}develops arguments based on Habermas; Schroyer's essay is a distinct American development, however, with formation of specific advocacy strategies.} Purposive-rational action is the determining form of modernization which has led to the possible transition to a \dq{post-industrial society.} Daniel Bell writes: \Q{The concept \dq{post-industrial society} emphasizes the centrality of theoretical knowledge as the axis around which new technology, economic growth and the stratification of society will be organized\ld -- cgit v1.2.3