SOC-4040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Control, Externalization
6 Sep 2016
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Externalization externalization is the bringing out and manifestation of the human capacity to create social grammars. Objectivation -- objectivation points to the social processes in which meaning is imposed on all recognized aspects of existence. Objectivation is the making of meaning in concert with others. Legitimation legitimation is second order" objectivation: meanings about meanings. Legitimation explains why we do what we do, believe what we believe, and feel what we feel. Reification we are the creators of our society, but sometimes we forget. Reality --- reality is the totality of our shared, everyday, lived-and-interpreted, apprehended- and-felt, explicit-and-implicit experience that cannot be wished away, and that is defended against threats (questions, doubts, alternatives, and outright attacks). Reality-structure --- a reality-structure is a social and temporal pattern of relations inherently bound up with reality. Socialization socialization is the interactive process during which society (social structure, social realty) is introduced to a stranger (baby, medical student, foreigner, etc.
