SOC-100 Lecture 1: Sociology Notes: Durkheim, Young, and The Other
13 Nov 2018
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Durkheim, young, and the other: predictable and inevitable, durkheim (1800"s)- anomie (a period of formlessness in times of rapid social change) adrift, lacking direction. Increase in deviant and criminal behavior; however, according to durkheim, deviance is inevitable and healthy: unr -racist, violent, anti-semitic, misogynist, etc. deviate from social norms that govern understandings of race, gender, acceptance of jews, non-violence, inevitable?- society of saints. Others help us feel special by building solidarity: young (mid 60"s)- late modernity . Modernity = beginning industrial revolution and emerging with an increasing embrace of science and a pursuit of order. Postmodernity- there is no essential meaning; categories are arbitrary, there isn no truth but only truths, perception is reality. Late modernity the modern world has features of both modernity and postmodernity: late modernity- create vertigo (closely related to anomie). Confusion from the dizzying array of identities and meanings available to you. Messages about gender, race and culture are ever shifting and mediated by consumption.
