{"id":1331,"date":"2011-11-16T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2011-11-16T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:52:07","slug":"future-society-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2011\/11\/16\/future-society-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Future society III"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my first blog post called Self and business in social networks<\/strong>, I was refering to the concept of self and four\u00a0methods through wich\u00a0self-consciousness is achieved.\u00a0In his first trilogy volume called The Rise of the Network Society,<\/strong> in the\u00a0chapter Prologue: the\u00a0Net and the Self, Castells<\/strong> <\/strong>explains that the first step in an informational society is the organization\u00a0 by recognition of itself based on cultural<\/strong> attributes. This was the fourth method of self identification described in my post: 4. cultural perspectives – depending on the origin of the individual. <\/em>In the second volume The Power of Identity<\/strong>, Castells defines identity as a source for the meaning and experience, distinguishing between three forms and origins of identity building:<\/p>\n

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  1. Legimitizing identity – introduced by dominant institutions e.g. nationalism<\/li>\n
  2. Resistance identity – generated by the dominated minorities opposed to the institutions of the society<\/li>\n
  3. Project identity – based on some cultural values, a new identity is built<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    e.g. feminism challanging patriarhal family, reproduction, sexuality and personality on which societies have been historially based<\/em><\/p>\n

    e.g. green culture, smart meters, preserving nature<\/p>\n

    In the final chapter called Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society<\/strong>, Castells sees the information networks we presented in our previous post as the organizers of activity and sharing information, as producers and distributors of cultural<\/strong> codes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    I see a similarity between Castells’s forms of building identities and Nietzsche’s\u00a0history types:<\/p>\n

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    1. Monumental history – study of nation’s heroes conducted in order to invoke them in all their greatness <\/em>[1]<\/li>\n
    2. Antiquarian history – local history of specific social and civic communities<\/em> [2],\u00a0\u00a0history as consolation and reassurance, as the positive continuity that provides a people with its identity <\/em>[1]<\/li>\n
    3. Critical history – the sort of history one utilizes when the monumental structures fail to inspire and when antiquarian musings become mired in unproductive thoughts and a conservative motionlessness <\/em>[2]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Wikipedia\u00a0differentiates identity<\/a>\u00a0as personal and social, where social identity\u00a0<\/a>is defined as a\u00a0\u00a0person’s conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations \u00a0(such as national identity<\/a> and cultural identity<\/a>). <\/em><\/p>\n

      In our next post we will look into Castell<\/strong>‘s\u00a0last\u00a0trilogy volume End of Millennium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

      References<\/h3>\n

      [1] F. Nietzsche, Untimely meditations<\/p>\n

      [2] Blogpost,\u00a0Nietzsche’s Three Types of History in Literature: Stephan Heym’s THE KING DAVID\u00a0REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In my first blog post called Self and business in social networks, I was refering to the concept of self and four\u00a0methods through wich\u00a0self-consciousness is achieved.\u00a0In his first trilogy volume called The Rise of the Network Society, in the\u00a0chapter Prologue: the\u00a0Net and the Self, Castells explains that the first step in an informational society is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology-discipline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}