Consider the top down approach to sociology. Is it true to say that our lives are shaped and controlled by the structures and rules that are imposed upon us?
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I don’t think so, as we create and shape the structures that affect and influence us and later generations. We do this through norms and values that we choose to accept from previous generations and our own interpretation. The punk movement was an example of people CHOOSING not to accept the norms and values.
I don’t think so, as we create and shape the structures that affect and influence us and later generations. We do this through norms and values that we choose to accept from previous generations and our own interpretation. The punk movement was a prime example of people CHOOSING not to accept the norms and values.
i’m confused…how do we know when or even if the comment went through??
A good start, but consider the punk movement as essentially reactionary and designed for the middle class to have a pretend strop before moving on to jobs in the corporate sector!
even if the punk movment can’t be used as an example, we still create values for later generations to follow.. like the idea of the welfare state being implemented in the post-war years and still being ‘accepted’ as ‘conventional’ today..
Has the consensus over the welfare state broken down? Certainly Thatcher had a good go!?!
Not really, Thatcher was in essence, the last to truly break free from ‘consumerism’ and stand for her own conservative values. Since then, and following the intro of the NHS, no one has challenged it in the same way, and the NHS is agrred upon as useful by both major parties.