Bruce Lincoln - Force & Discouse, Myths & Ideologies

What is History?

• Account of the past

• Simple awareness

• Subjective

• How you interpret it

In Force & Discourse, what is the author seeking to find out in that sense?

• The way society is waved and modified

• Secession

• The exercise or threat of physical violence

• Non-denomination groups will push back

Define force

• Communicating in verbal or non-verbal form, symbolic meanings

• The exercise or threat of physical violence

• Ideologies

• Mystifying inequities

How is force used to create, sustain or transform society?

• Secession

• Rebellion (remove elites)

• Revolution (reshaping social structure)

• Communication

Is force sufficient to maintain society? Why or why not?

• No, not in long-term

• Yes, in the long-term

• Non-domination groups will push back

• Elites will dominate

Define discourse

• Elites

• Communication

• The exercise of threat of physical violence

• A supplement of force to communicate in a verbal/non-verbal manner

How does discourse help to create, uphold, and transform society?

• Ideological persuasion

• Persuade to behave & think a certain way all the time

• Mystifying inequities

• Sucession

History, Memory, and Myth are all forms of...

• Discourse

• Force

• Ideology

• Society

How is Myth different from History?

• "Believe it's true, but I know it's false"

• Sense of superiority

Define fable

• Fiction

• Lacks credibility, make truth claims

• Credibility, stories about pasts, make truth claims

• Credible and authority, story that has real power in present, blueprints to society