SOCY 325 Lecture Notes - Vertical Integration, Charismatic Authority, Protestant Work Ethic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 325
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The knowledge in instutions is what everyone knows. Knowledge that holds insitutions together is a form of social control. Stocks of knowledge are what we have been exposed to and have settled in our minds. We unconsciously draw upon knowledge that we alady acquired. Most of social life is sedimented, experiences and memory. Inter subjective sedimentation and experienced becomes social memory. Languages and signs are critical to social memory. Tradition precedes the individual and determines appropriate action. Legitimation- process of making something correct, authorized, legitimate. Everyday life begins in people"s thoughts and actions. How do these thought sand actions create a world that takes its own objective reality. Our everyday life reality is the most important. Face to face interaction is best interaction because of reciprocal typification. Language is most powerful in create signs and signification is critical in making a social order seem authorized and unchallenged. Language and signification is central in everyday life.