Saturday, April 9, 2011

Chapter 5: Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellshaft

Article: 
http://pnz.sagepub.com/content/17/1/3.full.pdf
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Kamenka, E. (n.d.). Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Political Science . Retrieved April 10, 2011, from http://pnz.sagepub.com/content/17/1/3.full.pdf

 Photo:

One. (n.d.). M.U.S.I.C. - Musicians United For Songs in the Classroom, Inc. Retrieved April 9, 2011, from http://www.learningfromlyrics.org/carry.htm 












Video:
 
 
chocolatewhistler. (2009, October 3). John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change . YouTube. Retrieved April 9, 2011, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY

Web Resources:
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschafthttp://www.sociologyguide.com/types-of-society/index.php

Lyrics:

One:  
Bono/U2

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame
You say one love, one life
When it's one need in the night
It's one love
We get to share it
It leaves you baby
If you don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's too late tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one but we're not the same
We hurt each other, then we do it again

You say love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love, one blood, one life
You got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One
One

Crossword: 
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2011.04/1021/10213433.106.html
Key: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2011.04/1021/10213433.106.ans.pdf


I chose this chapter because I wanted to begin looking at the very beginnings of what a society looks like and how supposed roles and stereotypes come to be. In the book it mentioned that the society found in the United States as a whole was a sort of gesellschaft society with groups that functioned with it as gemeinschaft societies. It stated that idea of e pluribus unum or unitiy within diversity as an examble of how American society functions.

This lead me to begin looking for pictures that showed that concept of e pluribus unum and I was lead to a comic commentary that showed people from all backgrounds, genders, and age groups walking together in unity. What I found interesting about this is that the picture was part of a page and was pared up with U2's "One." The song itself seems asks the question of why we cannot all get along since though we are different we still have a common goal. I then started looking at the chapter further and it took me to the idea of groups and statuses that we have within societies. It struck me that ascribed statuses and achieved statuses begin to separate us and cause that ideal of e pluribus unum not to always work even within this country. 

I was immediately drawn to John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change," a song about wanting the world to change but not being in the position to be able to change it because of the status and group they  are a part of. I think that there are many within our society who do not believe they can make a difference and I think that it is partially the system that is to blame for people's feelings of uselessness against those things they wish were different.

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