GentlyWeeping

Another 203 tutorial, getting a little worried about the whole tutorial thing. Yes i guess you could say there is no right answer in sociology, but the fact that we, a class of relative newbies to sociology were running the tutorial without a guide was rather worrying. I mean what if our theories though they may sound possible and logical are in fact just spurious assumptions made by us. Furthermore the whole thing about how the Maghibri and Genoese did their business was also i guess really besides the main point we were supposed to be discussing, which was basically how cultural beliefs could lead to different forms of social organisation.
I think even my theory on hindsight looks rather doubtful cause for one is too simplistic, and needs probably someone to like check it out. Cause premodern societies also had formal institutions, Jewish laws for one. Well there is a case that may support my point namely that any community can never be entirely Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, but i think its just too simple to say something like that.
Homo Economicus manifests oneself within the constraints of that one individual's culture. Yet consideration has to be made for the possibility of the individual being deviant and not following his cultural norm.