SOC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ann Swidler, Capitalism, Alexis De Tocqueville
24 Oct 2017
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The beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects shared by people. Habits help us do the things we aren"t capable of doing on our own w/o conscience thought. Personal disorientation that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life. Ideas such as all people are created equal . 10 american values: (sociologist robin williams: equal opportunity, achievement and success, activity and work, material comfort, practicality and efficiency, progress, science, democracy and free enterprise, freedom, racism and group superiority. Democracy in america - alexis de tocqueville 1835 & 1840. A social rule enforced by a . Reward or punishment associated with a norm. De tocqueville thought that the key to the american character was a belief in social equality. Bellah thought that by the 1970s american individualism had grown unhealthy leading to a breakdown in moral and social life. An abstract statement of the essential characteristics of any social phenomenon.
