Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Refugee Children, Compulsory Education, Anomie

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Scott Schaffer

Document Summary

(cid:873)super-custom(cid:874) - set of mores, folkways, patterns of behaviour dealing with major social interests. Societal interests: relating to each other, recognizing relationships, food, shelter, Based on customary principles how social life should be organized. Ex. compulsory education - access to a common set of knowledge, common way of understanding the world, understanding the past, and fostering a common sense of membership. Consists of structural components of society through which main concerns and activities are organized and social needs are met. They want the prisons to be as full as possible to maintain the institution. Underlying normative pattern in terms of which a group is organized. Cultural values that operate to divide between the rich and the poor - compel people to act in particular kinds of ways and reproduce those institutions. Our actions reproduce the institutions in which we are socialized. The self-conscious perspective of the person or subject. Awareness of oneself as a subject or social actor.