SOC 7171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Radical Change, Dramatization, Instrumentalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7171
• Professor: Betul Eski

Document Summary

Inventing tradition: nothing more ancient than the british monarchy, traditions: tend to origin or invented, those that are invented tend to be constructed and formally instituted emerging. However, they may be less traceable having a brief dating period rapid establishment : has a mean set of practices, government by overly accepted rules, rituals, symbolic nature, values, norms, behaviour of repetition. Continuity of the past: the distinguishing feature from customs is invariance . Custom: double function, not precluding innovation and change. Does not give any desire to change and cannot afford to be invariant: custom judges what you do while tradition is the ritual surrounding the action, routine has no ritual or symbolic function, they occur as an incident. They avoid the assumption that they cannot adapt, rather use old and new for a variety of purposes. These sources are generally always largely accumulated: generally, not concerned with time or place.