Originally posted by purple_haze
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Originally posted by purple_haze
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Or say collective work, again the same example, when you work on a production line where your work is a small piece of a production belt, you see with your own eyes that you need to work with others within a system. Comapre that to the owner a small shop or our earlier farmer example.
An American school kid since first grade realizes that at 8:05 school bus comes and picks him up and if he isn't there he will miss the bus. Do you see how the concept of punctuality is engrained in people since early childhood. Let's assume there was a similar system in Iran. Due to traffic or lack of planning or maintenance on the bus, school bus one day would have come at 8 anotehr day 8:10 etc. etc.
Do you see my point here? Our personality and culture in large part is being impacted by the social formation in our society. So we Iranians for the most part are the product of the social formation in Iran.
As for another example look at the Woman equality issue. The whole thing started when capitalisem needed woman to come out of the house and work in the factory. When they got moeny and economic independence they started to ask for more equal rights. So the whole women suffarge, equality and feminisem in large part started with teh changes in the social formation. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying feminist leaders and people had no role here. They had and all, but do you see the cause and effect here?
Originally posted by purple_haze
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Dada, when they say we are a less developed country, it is not just the size of the highrises and factories and technologies. It is even more, it is in the level of thinking and acting of individual memebers of our society. Religion, lack of independent thinking, disrespecting individual freedom, the way we treat our women, tolerance, etc. etc.
Sorry didn't mean to get all serious on you. I tried to show you that, all of these problems are part of the social science and it is nto like they came out of nothing.
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