SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Hans-Georg Gadamer, Social Order, Social Forces

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2040
• Professor: Charles Battershill

Document Summary

A sociological consciousness allows us to see and reflect on the constraints on freedom: dependency on the social world: bauman, deeply dependent on the social world(s), freedom is limited/constrained by. * born into group- did not choose it: the paradox of freedom and constraint, dependent on the social world but we also create it, social order exists (conceptually) in the in between . Chart of the comparison between popular understandings of social order and the view of social order developed in this course. *imposed by external social forces norms, values, laws, rules, codes, expectations, the economy(capitalism), politics (the government), socialization (family, educational institutions), etc. *enforced through the conformity of members of social worlds to conventions, codes of conduct, expectations, rules etc; * created through the interactions which members of social worlds have with each other; *brought into being by the creative actions of members of social worlds; *enforced through members" passive adjustment to external social forces;