class 13Habermas, Papacharissi

Sometimes local knowledge is dysfunctional. Experience is sometimes outside of their ability to explain them (birth rate, climate change, environmental decimation)

Anonymity in internet. Fear of no more face to face discourse.

Internet allows for more participants in public discourse. You enter into the field. Define centers of activity and invite others.

class 12Foucault, Bourdieu

The way that education is discussed in society; is there the assumption that the school system has the power to change the lives of people? If yes, that is the perception of relative autonomy.

Schools operate through power. Schools reproduce the same thing over and over. American dream that if you work hard in school you will escape your limits. If you haven’t succeeded, you haven’t used the opportunity available to you. Schools are a meritocracy and autonomous?

Bordieu only talking about cognition- “understand” p. 176 we have seen… - The school and the society has a history where AA came from slavery. The deficincy of their habitus perpetuates. Not only fryers and monks that wear habits. We perform our habitus. “be good, do as you are told.” Discipline is the modality of survival in the inner city. Teach your child respect, obey authority. Disabling values in the upper west side.

Most intelligent, sensitive people will want to do something about it. Gifted is a child who was given something more.

Superclass- analogy power elite are now global, 6000 people strong.

Distribution of wealth is polarized. Those with a combined burden of poverty and race are twice challenged.

Change the way the child is educated in the school. Education is more than pedagogy. Describe schools in their totality- relate all of the past and present characteristics of social relations. Must address all of the other conditions in the ecology.

Sen- Development as Freedom. – under developed world. Economic and human need needs to be increased.

We all understand that we have been privileged to get where we are now. Are we contained in a panoptic society.

class 10 Marcuse

Do people get ahead because they deserved to or should we mitigate inequities?

Frank- Middle class with everything needed, Trapped in a universe of perceived need. Things you need to own and accomplish. The machinery of making of things to serve a “need”. Making you feel like you can’t live without the excess. This is a seamless process. Need fuels production.

True needs and dreamy wants. There is a layer of false needs, can’t live without.

What will make you free?- power, wealth,

Class 11-Mythologies- Roland Barthes

Class 9 Summary of ideas

Awareness is not enough people need to feel responsible. People need to feel there will be a consequence to their contribution. No efficacy. Dewey says people have habits of action. What about motivation?

Clash between public and self. May know what is best for the group but driven to have best possible outcome for the self, even when it hurts others. Immediate gain trumps any sense of betterment for others.

How do we get people to, “Do what you know you should do”? What is the collective psychotherapy to bring us there? Incentives (economic)? Challenge and define your values and develop habits to support them. Is it on you- decide?! Or do we ask the question- what are the important circumstances that we have control over allow us to have the outcomes we want. What is the space between -The need for you to make the right choice and the understanding that we are headed for a cliff?

Class 8 Mills, C. Wright, "The Power Elite"

For communications studies: When you have a power elite with enormous power and control with interlocking members and elaborate and complex nexus of power. There is an efficient corrallity between the political and entertainment industry. What about the rest of the people and mass society? What has happened to democracy (Dewey 1920, Mills 1956)? The television reflected an idealized society. The notion and question of the public sphere. Television is in it’s infancy. As we have multiplied our capacity to broadcast and communicate, have we recaptured some capacity to have a public sphere where collaborative action can influence change?

Class 7 Polanyi, "The Great Transformation"