Consuming Places
John UrrySözler ve Alıntılar
In many societies such divisions reflect some particular social pattern. The Khasi, for example, have an eight-day week since they hold a market every eight days.
Our bodies do not forget the first house we encounter.
So sociology is important in permitting analysis and elaboration of aspects of the social world which are generally neglected by the other social sciences.
So while a very high proportion of the employed population are to be found in service employment, this does not at all mean that all those people are providing final services to the consumer. Perhaps up to half do not.
In particular in Ulysses he seeks to show how human action generically differs from animal behaviour; and hence while functionalist explanation is perfectly legitimate in biology it is forbidden in the social sciences. Explanation in the latter is simultaneously causal and intentional, not functional.
There has been the ‘racialisation’ of the phenomenology of the urban; and this works partly in England through the contrasting high valuation which is placed upon the English countryside which is taken to be predominantly white.