SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frankfurt School

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Two ways of thinking about the relationship between: Societies are composed of individuals who choose to act in concert in order to avoid chaos. Problem: too much credit to individual choice, fails test of personal experience. The reason individuals practice conform to collective ones i that some or another institution or of cial agency of the larger society teaches individuals the rules and thus in uences their practices ideally to the common good. Socialization- instruction of a very general but powerful kind, social institute working together. Bourdieu: the two traditional theories are misunderstood and too limited. Explicit:what someone tells you to do something, transmitting culture values to a new generation (macro level of socialization) (example: national anthem) Implicit: lessons you learn from school that aren"t obvious parts of the curriculum, hierarchies of authority (stand up straight, be quiet, take off hat- during anthem) Schooling teaches students a macro level of socialization, it teaches us how to be respectful.