SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Philosophy, Materialism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is also the study of social phenomena. Society is a social construction - not something that you can touch. Social relationships shape every aspect of our everyday lives. The members of a society are organized within a dominant set of beliefs, values, behaviours that exist as rules, values and beliefs. 1) social structure: social organization, and, the social relations of ruling. These shared rules are known as social norms. normal behaviour (how we should behave) Formal social structures include formal institutions such as the education system, the media, the state, the police, the criminal justice system, and so on. These institutions regulate our behaviour, beliefs and values by teaching us the interests, beliefs, values and norms of the ruling class elite. On a daily basis, our behaviours are regulated within informal social structures. O(cid:374)e e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple of ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e (cid:396)egulate ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)all(cid:455): the ele(cid:448)ato(cid:396) stud(cid:455)
