SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: The Civilizing Process, Voluntary Association, Johan Huizinga
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Governments: social institutions that oversee our lives and ensure social order. Humans have invented cultures and built complex societies, we have created structures and more importantly order. Social life is changing all the time, not all change is bad we can change society without destroying the social order. Voluntary association: a group formed by voluntary membership, unlike other voluntary associations, social movements usually have a political goal. Social movements: organized groups of people with an agenda or plan for social change, to be achieved through agitation and political pressure. Markets do not and cannot regulate themselves markets respond to our human need for interdependence and they are self-regulating in the sense that they set prices without outside political interference. Humans live in a small world" stanley milgram showed in a study that two random strangers are only 5-6 people away we are connected by only six degrees of separation.
