Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Contemporary Times
R Kumaran
Learner and Learners Assistant
Dr Geetha
Dr Rajagopal
Dr. SriDevi
Dr Balakrishann Vergal
Dr Meena
Moral
actively seek.
Assuring one another that we all live in secure moral universe
that I actively create as you do
Political
Cultural
FACE-TO-FACE CONNECTED
Corruption, Developmentalism
Inward-Directed life/Relationship Fundamentalism/Casteism,
Clictivsm, Delusionalism
Inner(-to- Outer) Directed life/Relationship - Activism/ service
to others
Developmentalism
Inward-Directed
Inward-Directed life/Relationship
Fundamentalism/Casteism,
Clictivsm,
Delusionalism
Inner-Directed
Inner(-to- Outer) Directed life/Relationship
Activism
Inclusivism
Environmentalism
Outer-Directed: Consumerism
I CONSUME THEREFORE I AM
My wants and Desires are more important than others needs
I am empty and sick inside me, only things I buy can fill me give me
completeness
Aloneness (I should have that which no one lese has) is more beautiful
than togetherness (being one with others)
Aggressive Individualism: Dont feel connected. Community Life is BAD
Having More in more important than being more
Outer-Directed: Developmentalism
MATERIALISM AS DEVELOPMENT
Development means having more (not being more), India, and me have
to have more More money, more houses, gadgets, and cars, things and
property
Have more at the cost of peace, respect, security, freedom, honesty,
self-respect
We want India to be at least Singapore, China or at best USA Living
under surveillance, no privacy etc.
END (Having More) IS MORE IMPORTANT MEANS (BEING RIGHT)
Outer-Directed: Corruption
Immoral or Practical?
Smart?
Go with the crowd? Other-Directedness
Way of Life
High-Value but Low-Risk
Inward-Directed:
Fundamentalism/Casteism
Refusing to learn from others, not willing to share space with others,
I love myself (Narcissism) so much that anything and anyone that
Inward-Directed: Clictivism
Tourist Mentality
Pilgrims to Tourists
Inner-Directed:
Activism/Inclusivism/Environmentalis
m/
Taking responsibility for others happiness, welfare and need
fulfilment
Not just humanism, but Inclusivism Choosing to only those
actions that seek welfare of others humans, flora and fauna
first. (Environmentalism)
Sociological Imagination
Thank You