Basics

• What are norms and values

  •NORMS =specific rules of behaviour that relate to specific social situations

  •VALUES =general principles or beliefs which the majority of society agrees on:values underpin social norms
• Positive

  • sense of belonging

  •Unity-social life

  •Generational bonding morality •Template of life
• Negative

  • Conflict

  • Suppressing individuality -Form deviant cultures

  • CHAUVINISM =pride+arrogance •XENOPHOBIA =hostility towards outsiders

  • JINGOISM =extreme patriotism
• Functionalists

  Passing down of culture creates a value consensus

  •Purpose and meaning without it anomie

  DURKHEIM =Society needs social solidarity and integration brought on by collective ceremonies and identification .Modern

  Capitalists societies don't do this as they are too big and confusing=anomie
• Marxists

  Culture spreads capitalist ideology as It is a version of events preferred by the ruling class

  YOUNG =investigated crime+the way it was

  reported. 'bulimic society'- obsessed w/ wealth and fashion .

  •Capitalism creates crime as the poorest are manipulated into desiring wealth and fashion at any cost