SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Xenophobia, Economic Sanctions, Ethnocentrism
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Norms: things that are accepted in society: folkways: customary ways of doing things, if you don"t do it, you get teased a little bit. In the us: etiquette like the way you hold utensils and stuff: mores: norms that do carry a sense of right or wrong (morals almost). Strong feelings about it so greater consequences: laws: op mores, formal rules to prohibit the act. And specifying the punishment for breaking that rule. Internalization of norms: try to get people to know what is right or wrong. Works pretty well, not 100% effective: gossip + social approbation: talking about bad behavior behind their backs, shaming, blaming. Learn it pretty early: economic sanctions: boycott (informal), refusing to do business with them. Fines (formal: legal sanctions: jail, the law, death sentence. Social structure: status: position in society, sense of power, ascribed status: race, ethnicity, social class, sex.
