SOC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sheeple, Active Minds, Honor Killing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 4010
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

-the story violence is the story of civilization. -not only is the rise of organized violence part of civilization, the suppression of individual & spontaneous unlawful violence is its measure. -the greater the civilization, the more violence can be done when necessary---and more that it is not done when not! -a society dies when it is unwilling to use violence when necessary. -a society becomes decivilized when it fails to suppress it when unnecessary. -you are entitled to your own values but not your own facts. -we need to look at different sides of issues there may be other positions, and even if we are right, our truths aren"t exhaustive or forever. -ask the difficult and controversial questions, asking the question can be more important than the answer. -we are more sensitive to it than ever. -we live at a time when violence is seen as increasingly abnormal and deviant.