SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Selective Breeding, Manifest Destiny, Excommunication
Document Summary
Continued existence of a set of social relationships over time (predictability) Maintenance of social order= social control: justification: belief in the legitimacy of social order, traditional beliefs, discourses (ideologies): religion, scientific, political. , usefulness (utility, force. Extreme point: indoctrination (propaganda, brain wash: education. May include indoctrination: appeal to rationality. Arguments in favour of usefulness of order. Indoctrination can be referred or compared to nazi germany and communist. Indicated by laws, norms : behavioural (from socially- expected behaviour) Work, courtship, marriage, worship, driving, alcohol consumption, disputes . Vary from time to time and place to place. Formal punishments: social order: human or inhumane. Values change: just can becomes unjust, and vice versa. Criminal or administrative rules do not apply. Infractions are punished by informal social reaction : theoretical deviance. Worldview: common ways of seeing/ explaining the world. Conceptions of superior and inferior races have always existed. 19th century emphasized superiority of anglo-saxon race. American mission to expand and civilize the world.
