The main core that holds society is the order. The term social order refers to a particular system of linked social structures, institutions, relations, values, customs and practices which maintain certain important patterns of behaving and relating. Social order is a stable state of society where the social order is accepted and maintained by its members. “Social order is largely reproduced over time through the cycle of socialization” (Martin, 93). Martin questions socialization and reproduction of social practices. He argues that most daily life practices are not just the way they are, but how people have made them. Martin claims that most practices become naturalized and mystified, so that they have become as fictitious necessities.
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He offers the example from ancient Hindu story, which describes a “primal man” a giant person with god-like qualities, who was killed and whose body was decided up to make the world. Martin claims that people should understand this story as suggesting how the world should …show more content…
Also, he states that the story depicts the social order not as created by humans, but as created by divine beings (Martin, 103). He believes that challenges to the social hierarchy are challenges to the divine order of things. The author suggests that people have to focus what the story “does” rather then what it “means” (Martin, 103). The final focus that he points out is that elements of cultural toolboxes can be used to reflect and reinforce assigned behaviors: social roles, norms, and behavioral codes, and so on. He conceptualizes his statement by using the story of Jesus in the gospel Matthew in which Jesus says that when the end of the world comes, someone referred to as the “son of man” will judge everyone. By providing this example, author claims that in each story there is almost always a “moral to the story”. The moral of this story states if whoever helps anyone who needs food, clothes, etc., is actually helping Jesus, and those people will be rewarded on judgment day, and Martin believes that all Jesus’s followers should be doing this things (Martin, 106). Based on my understanding this story means that people will be judged in a certain way at the end of their life time. Also, what the story does is to reinforce certain behaviors as good and
He offers the example from ancient Hindu story, which describes a “primal man” a giant person with god-like qualities, who was killed and whose body was decided up to make the world. Martin claims that people should understand this story as suggesting how the world should …show more content…
Also, he states that the story depicts the social order not as created by humans, but as created by divine beings (Martin, 103). He believes that challenges to the social hierarchy are challenges to the divine order of things. The author suggests that people have to focus what the story “does” rather then what it “means” (Martin, 103). The final focus that he points out is that elements of cultural toolboxes can be used to reflect and reinforce assigned behaviors: social roles, norms, and behavioral codes, and so on. He conceptualizes his statement by using the story of Jesus in the gospel Matthew in which Jesus says that when the end of the world comes, someone referred to as the “son of man” will judge everyone. By providing this example, author claims that in each story there is almost always a “moral to the story”. The moral of this story states if whoever helps anyone who needs food, clothes, etc., is actually helping Jesus, and those people will be rewarded on judgment day, and Martin believes that all Jesus’s followers should be doing this things (Martin, 106). Based on my understanding this story means that people will be judged in a certain way at the end of their life time. Also, what the story does is to reinforce certain behaviors as good and