SOCI 2150 Lecture Notes - Jigsaw Puzzle, Anomie, Robert K. Merton
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Social realms (see albert hunter in challenge of social control, able pp. Jackson, et al (2011), chapter 2: culture is the highest unit of analysis that we can use. Culture is flexible, fluid vague: second, change. Ex: computer society: within society there is three divisions, they are called realms, private, parochial, public, they are defined by social intimacy and social disclosure, social intimacy: it comes from close emotion, permanent bonds or ties and affliction. It requires a very strong sense of dependency. Social intimacy leads to disclosure: social disclosure: act of revealing information about yourself that anther or someone else would not otherwise know factually. While a can tell b about c all kinds of rumors that"s a different kind of social disclosure. Relationships require disclosure and not a whole lot of blurting stuff out. Otherwise the relationship goes flat: private realm: comprised of small family, kin, close friends. Tight reliable group that has social intimacy and social disclosure.
