SOC 2191 Lecture 5: SOC2191 Lec#5

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2191
• Professor: Peter Beyer

Document Summary

Religion and social structure: cosmic order and social order. Expectations = social structures (expecting things to happen a certain way, and everyone expects the same) That which remains stable so that other things can change (= information) Reprise: examples of course structure and ritual structure (rituals as stabilizers) Roles = bundles of expectations and the things that go with it. Distinguishing things from things considered close is more defining then the farther: peace, garden (what is the other side of garden?) Unplanted field, path, asphalt, the house and patio etc. The(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:272)lose to the ter(cid:373) (cid:858)garde(cid:374)(cid:859) Identity is defined as what something is and what it is not. Neither one nor the other, both at once (recall: rites of passage) Social categories as analogues getting to the religion end of things. Cosmic is about finding a space within the nomos for the cosmos: e. g. woman/man ~ goddess/god.