Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- 作者: Steve Bruce
- 出版社/メーカー: Oxford Univ Pr (T)
- 発売日: 2000/06/15
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昨年読んだSteve BruceのSociology: A Very Short Introduction*1に「陰謀理論」への言及があるのでメモ。”The key sociological proposition that much of our world is inadvertent and unintended is important, not just for understanding why things do not go as planned but for understanding why things are as they are.”(p.79)ということ、つまり「予期せざる結果（unintended consequences）」に絡んでの言及。
ここで、ブレヒト＝高橋悠治のご教訓*2を再度引いておくことにする（「人間の努力は長続きしない」）；
(…) The undestandable desire to understand the world has lead to a huge and persistent market for simple theories of powerful hidden agents. So the Second World War was not the outcome of a very large number of actions engaged in by a very large number of individuals, groups, and organizations with very different goals; it was caused by the Jews, or the Freemasons, or International Communism, or some other unitary actor. If no this-worldly agent of sufficient potency can be imagined, then one can always invoke aliens. Such conspiracy thinking is actually a misdirected partial understanding of social causation. It rightly supposes that there is more to life than meets the eye and reflects the sense of powerless that there is an order that is not immediately observable to the untrained eye. But then it reverts to the idea that things occur because someone wanted them like that. It fails to understand unintended consequences and the supra-individual causes of action.(p.82)
頭つかって生きようたって
頭でかえるのはシラミだけ
ひとはこの世のゴマカシすべて
気がつくほどにずるくはない
計画立てて わかったつもり
裏まで読んでも 両方ともはずれ
この世はそんなに悪くはないのに
もっとほしがるのが悪い癖
しあわせもとめ 駆けだすときも
走りすぎて しあわせを追い越すな
ひとはとかく欲にめくらみ
努力のつもりも 思い込み
- アーティスト: 三宅榛名高橋悠冶
- 出版社/メーカー: ALM RECORDS
- 発売日: 1991/01/01
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