SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Johan Huizinga, Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process
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Voluntary associations: a group formed by voluntary membership, often has a political goal. Social movements: organized groups of people with a n agenda or plan for social change, to be achieved through agitation and political pressure. Examples of our organic solidarity (need for interdependence: work/live in a global marketplace. Multiple dyadic relationships between buyers and sellers can gather into complex networks of exchange that indirectly connect/affect millions of unseen/distant participants. We can fulfill our needs without the supervision of a hobbesian despot! *ability to set prices independently differentiates free market and command economy: the internet: a vast info market. Striking feature diversity: milgram"s 6 degrees of separation. Classic studies: improvised news: sociological study of rumor. First study: the psychology of rumor by allport and postman: simulated broken telephone, most distant source is often deeply flawed, critic: takes rumor transmission out of its natural social context.
