Sublime

First, ethnic and racial groups, in and of themselves, are amoral. Second, people prefer to worship in their own cultural groups. Third, denominations and congregations that use the “homogenous units principle,” which means that volunteer organizations function best when composed of just one cultural group, grow and are more vital.

Ideas, things and even individuals can cross in both directions, but however porous and elastic the boundary is – and both are major components in its strength – it must retain its integrity if the group is to survive as a definable people.

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for ever

L’héritage de la législation d’assistance organisée dès ces années par risques (maladie, vieillesse, maternité, famille) ne va pas disparaître d’un coup, au prétexte de l’installation des premières assurances : à la différence d’une notion d’assistance qui viserait des pauvres stigmatisés, soupçonnés de paresse et ne jouissant pas d’un plein statut

We will return to this recurring problem of the tensions between the local and the universal, which is not unconnected to the problem of the sacred and the rational.

What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?

Its scholars study many different kinds of cultural groups—from hunter-gatherer clans to corporations to nations—investigating cognitive structures, social structures, biases, and behaviors.

Partout où règne une organisation autoritaire existe toujours, par en dessous, une organisation informelle et clandestine. C’est vrai du camp de concentration nazi ou stalinien, c’est vrai aussi des institutions d’utilité publique comme l’école. Les élèves ont leur organisation clandestine faite d’interdits transgressés, de services rendus en cache