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| a form of communication that arranges human actions and events into organized wholes in a way that bestows meaning on the actions and events by specifying their interactivity |
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| The degree to which a belief (or disbelief) seems convincing is directly related to its “plausibility structure” – that is, the group or community which provides the social and psychological support for the belief |
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| refers to the process by which an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate (authorized) by its attachment to norms and values shared by a given social group. |
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| Socialization and Policing |
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we moderns are socialized to be aware of alternative perspectives, to a point
-but threaten our core assumptions and beliefs, and we will quickly reveal our strong commitments to certain starting point as non-negotiable |
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-law is no less a story than other narratives. It’s simply codified norms that we collectively agree to live by
• nothing inherently rational about it |
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| -Radical unbelief is simply not possible. We can only think, know, feel, choose and act by believing and committing ourselves to certain assumptions and presumptions |
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| The American, The Militant Islamist Resurgence, The Christian, The Capitalist Prosperity, The Progressive Socialist, The Scientific Enlightenment |
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| “Horizons of Significance” |
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when you reject a narrative, you can hardly get away from it
-so much about our lives could be different. There isn’t a natural progression of values and norms toward some obvious end
-There is no self-obvious set of values and norms you ought to holds
-music and its relationship narratives |
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| What happens when narratives conflict? |
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