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Karaganda State Medical University Department of History of Kazakhstan and Social-Political Disciplines Sociology. Lecture 2 Elements of Social Life Specialty: 5B130100 - “General Medicine” Course: 2 Hours: 2 Lecturer: Nazgul Mingisheva Karaganda 2014

Outline: Modern views on society. Processes of globalization Social institutions Social structure and social interaction Social stratification and social mobility Sociological characteristics of personality. Processes of socialization Deviance and social control

Modern views on society. Processes of globalization Globalization is a new world order reorganized time, space, people and things McDonaldization is “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restraint are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world” (George Ritzer, 1993)

McDonaldization process affects “not only the restraint business but also education, work, health care, travel, leisure, dieting, politics, the family, and virtually every other aspect of society” (Ritzer, “The McDonaldization of Society”, 1993)

Globalization and postcolonial criticism Franz Fanon (1925-1961) is Afro-French psychiatrist and writer whose works are influential in the fields of postcolonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism

Globalization and postcolonial criticism Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies

Homi K. Bhabha’s main ideas: Hybridity Ambivalence Cultural difference Mimicry Third Space

Globalization and postcolonial criticism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942) is best known for the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” She is an Indian literary theorist and philosopher whose works are considered as fundamental for postcolonial criticism

Globalization and postcolonial criticism Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is a contemporary social anthropologist. He discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization. Main books: Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981) Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimension of Globalization (1996)

Social institutions Social institutions are established and cohesive set of standardized and rule-governed behaviors. They include the family, education, religion, economic and political institutions.

Social institutions The family: A socially defined set of relationships between at least two people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or (in some definitions) longstanding ties of intimacy.

The family Key questions: How do families vary across different societies, historical periods, classes, and ethnic groups? How are authority, resources, and work distributed within families? How do parents, particularly mothers, balance the demands of work and family? What are the causes and effects of divorce, domestic violence, and single parenting?

Social institutions Education: A formal process in which knowledge, skills, and values are systematically transmitted from one individual or group to another. Key questions: - How do educational practices vary across different societies and historical periods?

Education: key questions How does education affect individuals’ subsequent activities and achievements? What are the effects of class, race, and gender on educational institutions and experiences? What are the causes and consequences of various trends in education, such as grade inflation, violence in schools, and increasing public funding of religious instruction?

Social institutions Religion: A unified system of beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural and to norms about the right way to live that is shared by a group of believers. Sociologists treat religion as a social rather that supernatural phenomenon.

Religion Key questions: How do the world religions differ? How are they similar? How have religions developed and changed, and why do people engage with them? What is the relationship between religion and other aspects of social life such as stratification, deviance, and conflict? What are the causes and consequences of contemporary trends such as secularization, splintering of religious groups, and shifting church- state relationships?

Social institutions Economic institutions: Sociologists understand the economy as the set of arrangements by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods, services, and other resources.

Economic institutions Key questions: What institutions and relations characterizes different economic systems (for examples, pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial ones) How do consumption and leisure patterns differ among various cultures, historical periods, and social groups?

Economic institutions Key questions: How do the structures of business organizations affect productivity, job satisfaction, and inequalities? What are the causes and consequences of contemporary trends such as economic liberalization, declining unionization, and increased consumer debt?

Social institutions Political institutions: Institutions that pertain to the governance of a society, its formal distribution of authority, its use of force, and its relationships to other societies and political units. The state – an important political institution in modern societies – is the apparatus of governance over a particular territory.

Political institutions Key questions: How do political institutions differ across historical periods and societies? How do different social groups participate in political institutions, and with what consequences? How and why individuals participate in political processes such as voting or joining lobbying groups? How the political institutions related to other aspects of society, such as the economy and the mass media?

Social structure and social interaction Major perspectives on social structure: Functionalism: Social structure consists of statuses, roles, and social institutions Each element of structure performs some function in the overall social system

Major perspectives on social structure: Conflict theory: Social structure is comprised of a number of hierarchies among different groups defined by class, social status, ethnicity, and gender, among others Group relationships are characterized by domination, exploitation, and conflict

Major perspectives on social structure: Formal Sociology: - Social structure is comprised of individuals, groups, and other social entities, and of the networks of social ties between them

Social interaction Major perspectives: Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy: Interaction is mediated by symbols and meanings Participants in an interaction actively create and interpret these symbols and meanings

Major perspectives on social interaction: Exchange Theory and Rational Choice: Interaction is mediated by the exchange of resources, esteem, prestige, and power Interaction participants actively try to maximize their rewards and minimize costs

Social stratification and social mobility Social stratification includes: Income and Wealth: Closely related to occupational and educational status Race and Ethnicity: Many sociologists believe that racial categories are false and refer to ethnic differences instead. Race is a socially constructed set of distinctions that categorize people on the basis of biological characteristics. Ethnicity is a way of categorizing people on the basis of their shared cultural, linguistic, or national identities.

Social stratification Gender: The set of socially constructed meanings, practices, norms, skills, and other characteristics ascribed to people on the basis of biological sex Age: In many societies, power, prestige, rights, and obligations are assigned to people on the basis of their age Social mobility: The movement of individuals or groups up and down stratification hierarchies

Person and society Social status: A relatively fixed position in society associated with particular rights, obligations, and a certain level of honor. Types of status: ascribed, achieved, master Role: The obligations, rights, and expected behaviors attached to a specific social status

Socialization Key concepts: Nature/Nurture Debate: Debate over whether human behavior is dictated by biology (‘nature’: genes and instincts) or shaped by social factors such as culture, structure, and socialization (‘nurture’). Most sociologists take the latter view.

Socialization Key concepts: Oversocialized Conception of Man: The critique that some theories (Functionalism, Durkheim) overstate the degree to which individuals internalize societal norms and depict individuals as having no capacity for creative action.

Deviance and social control Major perspectives: Functionalism, Durkheim: Deviance has positive functions: it provides opportunities for society to reassert common values and norms, and it spurs social change Deviance is explained rather in social terms than in biological and psychological ones (Durkheim only)

Major perspectives on deviance and social control: Conflict theory: Deviance is one aspect of the power, inequality, and conflict that pervade society Symbolic Interactionism: Focuses on how people come to engage in deviant behaviors and assumed deviant identities The labelling of deviants as such strengthens their deviant identities and may encourage further deviant behavior