SOCIETY

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SOCIETY UNDERSTANDING ITS FOUNDATIONS AND ITS
COMPLEXITIES
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• 1. CULTURE
• Material
• Non-Material

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2. NORMS The Social Behaviors we most commonly
expect to encounter
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• LEVELS OF NORMS
• Morés
• Customs
• Folkways

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• NEGATIVE RESPONSES FOR FAILURE TO CONFORM TO
  NORMS
• Sanctions
• Stigma

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SOCIETIES ARE DIVERSE Encounters between diverse
social groups lead to social responses that may
be positive or negative in their impact
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• CULTURE SHOCK
• Encountering Behavior so different from the norm
  it is difficult to understand or accept

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CULTURAL RELATIVISM Analysis in which judgment
emerges finding behavior that is acceptable in
one society may not be acceptable in others
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ETHNOCENTRIC COMPARISON AND JUDGMENT Comparing
cultures using ones own culture as the standard
for comparison
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BLAME ANALYSIS A Product of Culture Shock,
Relativism and Ethnocentric Judgment Blaming
Those Who are Visible and Different
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All of the Preceding are essential to
understanding the Development of Society, and
understanding processes of Socialization
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SOCIALIZATION The process(es) of learning to be
a member of society a social performer
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• THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS
• Lifelong
• Complex
• Product of Numerous and Diverse Variables

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• VARIABLES OF THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS
• INDIVIDUAL
• AGENCY

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INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF SELF
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• Gender
• Age
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Unique Individual Experience

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AGENCY Structural Forces with Authority and Power
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• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• FAMILY
• EDUCATION SYSTEM
• LAW GOVERNMENT / DMV
• CORPORATE STRUCTURES
• MASS MEDIA
• RELIGION
• HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

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• STRATIFICATION DIVISION OF SOCIETY INTO
  MEASURABLE LAYERS
• CLASS
• STATUS