MSTU5606/Course Glossary

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Let's develop a glossary of key terms for the course. To enter a term, put a semicolon on a new line in front of the term, then start a new line with a colon and your comments on the meaning and significance of the term -- e. g.

;Keyword
:Your discussion of the Keyword . . .

Keyword

A wonderful book, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams (Revised ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), provides excellent examples of the sort of discussion we might try to develop for essential terms as we go along.

Keywords in the Communication Theory and Social Thought

Self-alienation

Actualizing in the world that which an idea entails.

Organic vs. Mechanical Solidarity

Social Solidarity

Gemeinschaft vs. Gessellschaft

Ideal Type

Social Action

Group Formation

Fashion

The Metropolis

The Veil

Double-consciousness

Teleology the end is given in advance

Scientific Method highly developed form of impartial intelligence

Cult values

Consciousness and Self-consciousness

Generalized other

intelligentsia

epistemological

sociological

psychological

relativism

relationism

historical materialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism This might be useful since we keep encountering this term