SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social System, Ritualism In The Church Of England

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

The promise of science: 19th and 20th century positivism. Clarifies moral boundaries tests moral boundaries reduces social tension: mechanical (held together by shared tradition) and organic (modern industrial social order is a product of our interdependence) solidarity, great depression is a good example of anomie. Hurricane katrina: durkheim used suicide to enforce his point. Shows that it can be understood within the social system. Altruistic (so devoted to norms/ values that they sacrifice their lives for it) Anomic (profound social deregulation due to social change) (ex: economic decline) Fatalistic (people who believe theirs no way out) (ex: prisoners: robert merton (1938) Ocial syste(cid:373), (cid:862)the a(cid:373)erica(cid:374) drea(cid:373)(cid:863) i(cid:374)fatuatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d the cultural complex. The cultural complex (books, movies, church, tv, education) promotes unachievable ideals. Opportunity structure is not in alignment with the messages being propagated. Disconnect between opportunity and american dream creates continuous anomie and therefore deviant behaviour. Cultural emphasis on success is disproportionate to the means.