SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Social Fact, Dramatization
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Ideas of culture and action are central in sociology and social theory. Human culture is always moral order (everywhere moral orders) Human persons are nearly inescapably moral agents. Human actions are necessarily morally constituted and propelled practices. Human institutions are inevitably morally infused configurations of rules and resources. Fundamental motivation for human action is to act out and sustain moral order which helps constitute, direct, and make significant human life. Human beings can"t escape moral order because there is no way to be human except through moral order. Charles taylor second order desires : desires about other desires. Ex: humans not only have the ability to hate, but also the ability to judge that our hatreds are wrong. Moral order : intersubjectively and institutionally shared social structurings of moral systems that are derived from the larger narratives and belief systems. Social institutions and cultural systems are always moral.
