Social control

Our society is controlled by a group of rules established by the society. Those rules or norms are under control of some determinated rols and distributed by different status.

It doesen't mean that there's someone who "dominates" the society, it's an autoregulation wich lets the society to work "normally".

The social control depends on the grade of the acceptation of the norm.

Also the social norms are working thanks to the domination of some persons over others, like political, juridical or religious norms. Well the only existance of this norms aren't working without a social accept.
This last is like a psicologial intorization of norms. In fact it can be manipulated by many factors. One of them is the television, radio, etc...

Social Conflict

Social conflict is the one of the basic things in the social life.

We could say that the social conflict is a conscient battle between persons, collectives or institutions to get to the same objective.

There's plenty of diferent types of conflicts the most current are:
- "battles" between social classes
- economic competition of some companies
- family conflicts
- wars
- competitions between the political parties
- erotic rivalty between the ones who pretend on the same lover.
- sports cometitions
and many more...


We can make a huge difference between a violent conflict and competition. The difference is that the competition has some rules wich protect the integrity of all the competitors.
Well, in other words the competition is less cruel than the violence.

On the other hand the competitions bond the social group that enters in a conflict with another.

Exercise 4: Would be possible a society without conflicts? How

Vida y Color

La pel·lícula "Vida y Color" és una obra Espanyola ambientada en la post guerra Civil.
Una pel·licula creada i dirigida per Santiago Tabernero (16 febrer 1961 - actualitat) també conegut per les seves altres pel·lícules.


En el repart participen:
Junio Valverde

Joan Dalmau

Carmen Machi

Nadia de Santiago



Fede ( Junio Valverde) is a fifteen years old boy who goes to an religious school because his parents want him to study very much so that he can have a good career. The other boys of his age are different to him. They go to a normal school and often play cruel jokes on Fede.

Fede's grandfather (Joan Dalmau), an old republican soldier who's suffering the new Franco's regim. On the other hand we've got the best friend of Fede's grandfather who is on the side of Franco and his dictory. ( Here we have one of many social groups in the film, The republicans and frankists).

Fede has two friends: Sara, whose dark secrets Fede wishes to know, and Ramona a girl with Dawn's syndrome who secretly waits a boy from her own, crazy father.

Fede wishes many things from the life: a colored TV, his own sleep room and the last skull chrome in the collection. But it doesen't happen, while the mystery of the "Skeleton" the unbuilded construction is growing more and more.

Social position. Rol and Status.

The social position of a person is determinated by two concepts wiches are like the two sides of a coin: ROL and STATUS.

The ROL is a coherent set of activities usually done by a person.
All ROLS have norms; they have obligations.
They produce expectations from the ones who recive the effect of his activity.

Persons can't have only one ROL, but more than one. We all have some rols wiches we use depending on the surrounding we are.
Some times there are such different rols that we have an internal or social conflict.

On the other hand we have the STATUS wich is a set of rights and honors of a person. Often we're talking about status like a dignity, category of a person, but these consepts are sometimes incorrect.

So, when we're talking about status we're refering on what reaction can we wait of others in front of a determinated rol.

Of course we only can wait a determinated reaction if the person knows wich is your status. So we'll say that a person must express his status. We can express our status by clothing, our way to talk, our determinate signs.


We said that rol and status are the ones what determinates our social position. We could say that the rol is more dinamic and status is more static. Here are four rols and status of mine.

1. Status: a student in a School. Rol: study, do exercises, listen, aswer.
2. Status: Diver. Rol: go diving, study, write reports, calculate the surfacing code, do the body check.
3. Status: Last child in the family. Rol: obey, listen, report, ask...
4. Status: Person. Rol: live, eat, do not kill...
   

Social Groups

Well here's the first thing I'll write in this blog. Today I'll write about "social groups".

The first thing we must know that humans always had been in groups wiches today we name by social groups.

A group is made of some persons, the number doesen't matter, who are integrated. Interate means positive and estable relationships between the members of the group. If this relationships disappear we're talking about a "desintegration" of the group.
But, we're talking about a group if all the members of this feel the pertinance to that group.
Like this not all grouping of people are groups. For example the "age groups" are not a social group, but only a set of people because they haven't got any common feel to be in that group.

The feel of pertaining to a group require to their members a distintion.
In-group, is the feeling to pertain to the group.
Out-group, is the feeling to not pertain to a group.

Well... and now I'll put six examples of "we" that I think I pertain:
- We Divers, because all we have common likes.
- We Russians, I think I do not need to explain...
- We My family, we're very unit.
- We the Humans
- We Roll Skaters, the same that "divers"
- We IES Frederic Marti's students, there's some relationships.