Ortner
Ortner thinks that _____ has the ability to be the basis of cultural critique
Subjectivity
Said that subjectivity evokes the _______ dimension of human life
Psychological
Ortner defines this concept as the ensemble of modes of perception, affect, thought, desire, fear and so forth that animate acting subjects.
Subjectivity
Interested in the linkage between subjectivity and power.
Ortner
The two levels in which Ortner discusses subjectivity
Individual and Collective
Luhrmann notes the debate over whether ______ are universal or not.
Emotions
Agency
Proposes a theoretical solution to "Ortner's puzzle"
Luhrmann
What are 2 different sides that we can take when looking at culture, according to Geertz?
From the side of power and from the side of the less powerful
When Darwin studied emotions, he studied _______.
The face
Ortner thinks that this concept is always ambiguously part of people's personal subjectives and part of the public culture.
Consciousness
Argued that culture should be understood as public symbolic forms, forms that both express and shape meaning for actors engaged in the ongoing flow of social life.
Geertz
What are 2 identifiable dimensions to Geertz' theory of culture?
The American concept of culture (world view and ethos) and the philosophical/literary theory of the cultural process
What are the six factors in the model of emotions?
Feeling, physiology, facial expression, display rules, appraisals (primary and secondary), and representations
Geertz gives a large role to ______ in his theoretical framework; it is one of the central aspects not only of particular cultural subjectivities, but of the human condition as a whole.
Anxiety
Thinks that the subject internalizes the structures of the external world, both culturally defined and objectively real.
Bourdieu
Which aspects of the six-factor model does Ortner attend to, according to Luhrmann, and what do these aspects have in common?
appraisal, display, and representation (only the socially shared ones)
What is the purpose of separating and assessing these different factors in emotional experience?
So we can see just how powerfully the social controls our basic, psychological responsiveness.
This concept was equated to Freud's idea of the subconscious as it is a system of dispositions that incline actors to think, act, and feel.
Habitus (Bourdieu)
This theorist shares similar views as Geertz in thinking that cultures are public systems of symbols and meanings, texts and practices, that both represent a world and shape subjects in ways that fit the world as represented.
Weber