CAS BI 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Group Cohesiveness, Labeling Theory, Norm (Social)
How does a campus react when there’s a suicide or suicide(s) on campus?
- They reevaluated the happiness and lifestyles of students
- Everyone on the staff would talk to the students and increase counselling to help.
Social Cohesion → Collective Conscience
- A unifying social force outside each person that regulates and binds us to the group, its
shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes.
- Durkheim was interested in social order in a time with industrial development. How cold
we make a society work with the liberal thoughts of doing what you please?
- A preindustrial era society is held together by mechanical solidarity. Now its organic
solidarity
- Social cohesion takes different forms, depending on the division of labor in a society
- Mechanical
- Pre-modern, pre-industrial
- Cohesion through sameness (Similar education, religion, lifestyles)
- Metaphor of machine
- A high division of labor will start changing the society. (Some are specialized to
be accountant, others doctors, etc)
- Collective vengeance - To reform something that was broken (Public execution or
torture) The state was offended and people will often participate in the execution
or torture
- Organic
- Industrialized, modern societies
- Cohesion through interdependence (We depend on each other to get our work
done) (Mutual reliance based on our specialities)
- Metaphor of living body
- Anomie plagues modern society according to…
- Everywhere, there is some level of crime. It’s healthy for society because it
reconfirms solidarity and shows social norms
- Rehabilitation…?
- We have a mix of restitution and death penalty/collective vengeance
- Crime is necessary to avoid anomie. The social response to crime reconfirms our
commitment to social norms.
Functionalism
- An approach to understanding a social phenomenon in terms its contribution to society.
Durkheim’s functionalist theory of crime:
- Crime exists in every society, because the social response to deviance strengthens
social solidarity and cohesion. Some crime is necessary for a society to function.
Deviance - Violation of a social norm (robbing to farting in public)
Crime - Against a written law
- There are people who question and analyze the line between normal and abnormal.
Labeling Theory - (Rosenheim) If somebody is deviant it’s because someone has labelled
them deviant. Being labelled can affect their perception of self.
- Primary deviance
Document Summary
They reevaluated the happiness and lifestyles of students. Everyone on the staff would talk to the students and increase counselling to help. A unifying social force outside each person that regulates and binds us to the group, its shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes. Durkheim was interested in social order in a time with industrial development. How cold we make a society work with the liberal thoughts of doing what you please? solidarity. A preindustrial era society is held together by mechanical solidarity . Social cohesion takes different forms, depending on the division of labor in a society. Cohesion through sameness (similar education, religion, lifestyles) A high division of labor will start changing the society. (some are specialized to be accountant, others doctors, etc) Collective vengeance - to reform something that was broken (public execution or torture) the state was offended and people will often participate in the execution or torture.
