RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Adi Ophir, Vanguardism

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Adi ophir: preventable suffering" is the earn mark of evil. A mutually reinforcing system of culture (ideas, beliefs, symbols, values, attitudes) Structures (institutions, relations, roles, arrangements of power, wealth and status) that support a particular of relating and behaving: social order and power. A social order is never static or uncontested. Societies are constantly evolving, devolving, interaction etc. Whatever its shape, a social orders require the exercise of power. Indirect power or acceptance of legitimacy of the social order. Zimbardo, evil and power: evil is the intentional exercise of power to , harm people physically and / or destroy and commit crimes against humanity, harm people psychologically. Systematic evil: evil comes out of the interaction between dispositional, situational and systematic factors, bad apples: dispositional factors, bad barrels: situational factors, bad barrel makers: systemic factors (broad influences: political, economic, social, cultural and legal power).

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