REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Anomie, Social Theory, Social Order
Document Summary
The problem of social order and the classics. Reflect on the consequences of social order. Cooperation, fear of punishment those who do not obey deviate. Interest in how social cohesion survives under conditions of instability and inequality. Social order as a product of society, or forces that produce social cohesion and the maintenance of hierarchies. Society also a product of social order as well as social order being a product of society. How can we explain that the universe is not random, but there is some order success as a. Is social order fair? motivator e. g. money, gaining a degree. Central questions to theorists: order and action. Emergence of western sociology advent of modernity changes from medieval to modern forms of organisation cosmology of medieval societies theology modern societies science and reason. Important change from the medieval way of seeing social life to a more rational explanation. How we saw social life used to be driven by religion.
