This month it definitely got warmer and what is better than a swim in the cold water on a hot day? I like cities with water, it doesn’t matter if it is a river flowing through the city or if the city is built on a lake. So, lucky me that I’m living in Freiburg, where there are several lakes and a river!
My first experience living abroad was when I was 20, doing an exchange semester in Belgium. It was the first time living in a flatshare, the first time living in a foreign country and the first time being surrounded by French speaking people (I was there to improve my French). It was an unforgettable experience.
Religion is for everyone something different. So how should we be able to find out which religion a society has? Of course you can say they are buddhists, muslims, or members of another religion. But is their belief real? What exactly do they believe in? Are they religious? After all, what is religion?
Economy is about how we get the things we need for a living. Very important is for example food. When you are hungry, you just go into the next supermarket and buy a sandwich, don’t you? It’s easy in our society, we can consume everywhere and everything we can imagine. Together with consumption, production and distribution are associated with economy. Meaning: How are things produced? And how do they get from the producer to the consumer? We often can’t follow this path of distribution, we have no idea under which condition our things are produced.
I have been living now about half a year in Freiburg and I really fell in love with the city. So I thought it would be nice to tell you a little bit about my favourite things to do here. I started this new category Freiburg around the year where you find every month a post about what I liked to do most the past few weeks. And for May it is… (drum roll)… Strawberry picking!
Finally here comes the first subdiscipline of Ethnology. The political structure is the organisation of a society, for example if it has a government of not and how the government looks like. There are different political systems like bands, tribes or kingdoms. Beside the question of how power is organised you can ask about how power is attained. Max Weber, a German sociologist, said that there are three different forms of governments: In the first one you attain power through legal procedures like voting, in the second one through tradition, meaning the heir will be the king’s son, and in the third one through charisma.
