SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Naimans, Group Cohesiveness
3 May 2015
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What is culture: language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. If society and institutions are the structure, culture is the contents. Sociology basics: unless we isolate ourselves completely, all human beings live in societies where life is organized in particular ways. Institution an organization that structures human behaviour. Social cohesion: the degree to which members of a society feel united by shared values and other social bonds. Collective effervescence: a collective feeling of unusual energy, power, and solidarity. Explains why mass meetings can excite and energize people involved in social movements: crowd behaviour, riots/strikes group dynamics. Naiman: work is the means by which humans live, tasks to be undertaken. Under capitalism we become separated from the means of production. Naiman: leisure is time when we don"t work, when we take a break from completing.
