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honor with the place a person occupies with material systems of wealth and power. Since most of the society finds wealth and power desirable, they respect or envy people that have more than they do. When social honor is referred to as social status, it deals with the rank of a person within the stratification system. Status can be achieved, which is when a person position is gained on the basis of merit or in other words by achievement and hard work or it can be ascribed, which is when a person position is assigned to individuals or groups without regard for merit but because of certain traits beyond their control, such as race, sex, or parental social standing. An example of
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according to the group, we associate with: friends, family, or co-workers. Norms tell us what people ought to do in a given situation. Unlike values, norms are enforced externally – or outside of oneself. A society as a whole determines norms, and they can be passed down from generation to generation.
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Two different theories exist that explain and attempt to account for social order. The first theory is "order results from a large number of independent decisions to transfer individual rights and liberties to a coercive state in return for its guarantee of security for persons and their property, as
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Social honor can also be referred to as social status. It is considered the distribution of prestige or "the approval, respect, admiration, or deference a person or group is able to command by virtue of his or its imputed qualities or performances". The case most often is that people associate social
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by Hechter and Horne. Both arguments for how social order is attained are very different. One argues that it is achieved through outside influence and control, and the other argues that it can only be attained when the individual willingly follows norms and values that they have grown accustomed to
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or economic structure which is the basis of social order. For Durkheim, it is a set of shared social norms. For Parsons, it is a set of social institutions regulating the pattern of action-orientation, which again are based on a frame of cultural values. For Habermas, it is all of these, as well as
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based on financial ranking. This may cause strife for the individual in this situation when they feel they must choose to side with either their status group or their social class. For example, a wealthy African American man who feels he has to take a side on an issue on which the opinions of poor
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studied neighborhood racial segregation. His findings suggest that interaction can produce predictability, but it does not always increase social order. In his researching, he found that "when all individuals pursue their own preferences, the outcome is segregation rather than integration," as
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The order does not necessarily need to be controlled by the government. Individuals pursuing self-interest can make predictable systems. These systems, being planned by more than one person, may actually be preferable to those planned by a single person. This means that predictability may be
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Values can be defined as "internal criteria for evaluation". Values are also split into two categories, there are individual values, which pertains to something that we think has worth and then there are social values. Social values are our desires modified according to ethical principles or
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by Hechter and Horne. The next theory is that "the ultimate source of social order as residing not in external controls but in a concordance of specific values and norms that individuals somehow have managed to internalize." also stated in
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possible to achieve without a central government's control. These stable expectations do not necessarily lead to individuals behaving in ways that are considered beneficial to group welfare. Considering this,
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In every society, people belong to groups, such as businesses, families, churches, athletic groups, or neighborhoods. The structure inside of these groups mirrors that of the whole society. There are
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who married a prince. An example of achieved status is Oprah Winfrey, an African American woman from poverty who worked her way to being a billionaire.
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Another key factor concerning social order is the principle of extensiveness. This states the more norms and the more important the norms are to a
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A certain lifestyle usually distinguishes the members of different status groups. For example, around the holidays a Jewish family may celebrate
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Smaller groups exist inside of one status group. For instance, one can belong to a status group based on one's race and a
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and internalized. Weber's insistence on the importance of domination and symbolic systems in social life was retained by
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is recognized as the first to clearly formulate the problem, to answer which he conceived the notion of a
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African Americans and wealthy white Americans are divided and finds his class and status group opposed.
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Set or system of linked social structures, institutions, relations, customs, values and practices
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and ties between groups, as well as inside of each of the groups, which create social order.
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stated in "Theories of Social Order", edited by Michael Hechter and Christine Horne.
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can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of
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or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
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well as its establishment of mechanisms to resolve disputes," as stated in
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A good example of this is smaller religions based in the U.S., such as the
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An exception to the idea of values and norms as social order-keepers is
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Symbolic crusade: status politics and the American temperance movement
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