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0:13 yes so social order represents an essential aspect of society it's a necessary feature it's it's a set of linked social structures social institutions and social practices that conserve maintain and enforce normal ways of relating and behaving the concept refers to all those facets of society which remain relatively constant over time and you know we understand that social order it is it's necessary you know in order for there to
0:59 not um an outbreaking like crime or certain illegal activities social order has to be taken place in order to ensure that everything works in order as they should promoting equality all of and now looking at the functionalist perspective on social order the functionist argue that social order is achieved because people need each other so they're saying it's necessary because in order for certain things development of a country we have to work together and in working together there has to be an order in which you do
1:46 it and as Society move from traditional to Industrial the development of different social institutions facilitated the needs of people and created social order as well these social institutions interlock and work together to bring equilibrium well he argued that Society has a collective conscience which is a shared collection of beliefs Val values and attitudes as well as knowledge as well mhm and so you know as usual the
2:31 functionalist um one of the things about the functionalist is that anything that occur like there are there are many occurrences of something they see it as important it has to be necessary being that it it occurs in many other Society then it has to be something that is important and is necessary so that's really how and it has have a function and that's how the functionist really views a lot of Concepts and ideologies as well now looking at the Marxist you know theist always know for being very radical always about oppression capitalism all things marxists believe
3:17 there is no such thing as social order simple people are unconsciously forced to confirm conform to different rules and Val set by the Elites in society this is called false false class Consciousness uhhuh and so he looks at Working Class People they are being exploited and are unaware of their exploitation marks believe that the real social order can only be achieved in a communist Society however the thing with marks you
4:04 know is that for almost every issue his solution is a communist Society or a socialist society but he's always criticized heavily criticized because one he didn't give any form of guidelines as to how a communist society would properly function and work and get rid of like capitalism get get rid of um get rid of Oppression and all those thing inequality he didn't actually give a any give a firm guidance as to how to achieve this and so he continuously get blamed for it reason being he continues to us it as a solution to almost every
4:50 problem you know and you see where Cuba one of the Caribbean communist state they still face problems of high crime rate as well over there there's still a lot of inequality issues taking place over there so you see where a communist state it hasn't been proven up until now to be the ultimate solution to these problems moving on to the interaction is well inter interactionists believe that social order is a matter of a shared value system people interact with each other through their through this value system and this maintain order in
5:38 society you know and yeah that's that's really social order for to understand now for social control so social control is the control Society has over people it includes the mechanism created by Society to ensure stability over time and we know that it is the regulation and enforcement of norms right and yeah all societies practice social control um in a way all societies um yeah all societies would practice social control because even in like primitive societies you know the
6:26 Caven there there had to be some form of social control to keep people in check you know so that the society doesn't um destroy get destroyed by the people there has to be some form of social control you know you know indigenous people they had their their she the the Chiefs and you know the Kings and whoever these are form of social controls as well even within animals we see it every day right we know about the world and there's an alpha the alpha is one who have the dominance who controls the pack when you're ready and so on you have um the male lions the male lions they go
7:11 out and Hunt they bring back food and the the female lion lion responsible for child caring and that's kind of how it work for a lot of animals you know so you see where there's some form of social control even Within animals it's something that is necessary in all societies you could say living things as well all living things as well it's a necessary of the world that's social control and so the goal of social control is to it's to maintain social order so it's where
7:58 social order and social control comes in play now because social control main goal is to ensure that social order is taking place um an arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society's member members base their daily lives as well so it therefore goes hand in hand with devian and exist to prevent negative devian so you know devian that can damage the society at all so that's what social control try and prevent as some of their goals they also ensure social control also um
8:44 ensured social control is ured through the use of sanctions which can be positive as well as negative for positive sanctions um are rewards given for conforming to Norms so these aren't given because you're BR it's because you conformed to it so a promotion at work would be a positive sanction for working hard you know that a negative sanction now are like punishments for the violation of norms so you know you'll have a person being arrested as a punishment for shoplifting or maybe they assaulted someone they're being arrested you know um they do
9:30 that's a negative sanction and so what you understand is that um sociologists as well they would also classify sanctions as formal or informal you know formal sanctions are ways to officially recognize and enforce Norm violation which is you know being fined or imprisoned informal sanctions now emerging face to face social interactions social disapprovals also criticism people will face shunning shaming ignoring mocking as
10:16 well and what we understand from some of these informal sanction is the fact that they they do work in promoting social order and control as because you know if sh you know criti um ridicule them they they might actually make changes or steps to don't do the action again you know make some changes to the self and that um they don't receive the sh you know being shun as small as it may seem to some people is not a simple thing you know some people really and truly will mess your
11:01 day up mess your head up and everything so you see where these informal sanctions right they actually they do work they do work as well now moving to the agents official agents of social control now um social control is we know that they they are ensured in society through the corporative efforts of the various social institutions in society and you know these are considered the Agents of social control now the formal agents of social control include the legal system the court right and you know the thing is
11:49 when it comes to like crime and violence crime and deviance anything that's formal that that's speaking about formal it's it's really referring to like official the the legal system when they get in trouble with the law itself so that's what formal most will mean for as it relates to like crime and deviance and crime itself the informal agents of social control so these would include the family religion mass media healthare system and the education as well so while they're not um they the the formal agent would be like the last place so when someone really do something they going to the court if a
12:35 child or a student do something at a school they're deviating from the norms and they're causing problem suspension after suspension it might lead to them have to go into court because maybe they did something that harmed somebody so you see where you can still um you see where while you may receive um informal sanctions from the informal agents of social control it can lead to you going to the formal agent which is the legal system or the court so some agents like I said they can be both formal and informal such as
13:20 education so in summary education functions as a formal agent of social control to organize instit tions uh having a curricular and credentials while also serving as an informal agent through the transmission of cultural values and everyday social interactions you know so this dual rule highlights the multiac nature of education's impact on shaping individual behavior and societal Norms as right now as example for this we could look at even do you guys remember um the D check
14:08 song that well I'm not going to um say who produ music but the artist Jamaican artist he s it Dan check and so it went popular the whole D fully Dan thing came a trend in Jamaica where education was like not important anymore right and so the in the education institution right they understand just how the the chaos that this could cause the impact the negative impact it would have on the Nations children right the future of the children not only the present but the future of the children and the country as well right so they're
14:53 not just looking at the S itself or the word they looking at you know the lives of the this may it may devop of and schols even there was a dance that came you know through the the whole thing I believe yes it was and the dance was in white and it was the student started buying it and wearing it to school what what did many school did well the Min the Ministry of Education ordered that all schools should Bond it you know some school B it already suspended for the children so you see where the school took active measures to ensure that these form of
15:41 deviance really these form of deviant the students um going out of the social order they they ensure that this is be not um they're preventing it from happening again so that's why they did those formal sanctions by giving them suspend suspensions and so I know where um it would be getting formally when they would put in the B on the bus as well uhhuh um also the Agents of social control have changed significantly as society advanc as Society expanded the agents had to change and adapt to many
16:27 of the changes that's taking place know have the new things we don't think the any at all we don't like the same things so the rules can't necessarily be the same if if it's being the same then it's going to be outdated and you're going to have a conflict between ages and so you for example back then you know within the um the 1900s or 20th C but then could uni sh you go to with ha anyhow you know but now I'm pretty sure they won't even the security won't even let you through
17:13 the gate looking certain ways right and you see where the rules Norms behaviors these things they they have to change because I mean me personally CCH me school with tear up shes if my the first day as students shirt go to the nurse and for the time being right you know students get suspended for the he now can believe it yeah many students getting sent home which which shouldn't happen you know you shouldn't send us I don't believe you should be sending students home because of their hair because it doesn't necessar have an impa
17:59 on their performance it might be a destruction we can that it's a destruction but I don't know that's deba yeah and so you see where you know the agents they they they slowly have to change and adopt to Future preferences as well to ensure that there's not a conflict between Generations so the legal system so our first we we're going to just look at the first um agent of social control which is the legal system also the most powerful agent as well so it is the arm
18:45 of the state and its sole purpose is to exercise social control nothing else that is its sole purpose which is why it is the most powerful and because it's formal as well and it would differ from the other social agent main because you know it has major functions though they might indirectly help to preserve social order as well but the court system far bigger we know that it includes the police and the court as well which are the physical representation of this agent the police and the court they're the ones who go around enforcing the laws now they enforces certain sanctions and
19:33 laws offers punishment for the breaking of the laws and sanctions so fines imprisonment that's that's what they really deal with now what what we must understand while while they are the most powerful they they they depend on something and that's something they depend on is the needs the needs the help from mass media so what we understand is that it relies on collaboration with mass media to disseminate information and communicate its influence effectively so reporting
20:20 on crime and devance to abroad audience as a deterrent against f um actions or F crime right so you have the news you show it on news and the News um come and say um criminals C this and that and they were prison you know they they use social media as well you have a the Jamaica police force on social media they do all typ of things highlighting wanted criminals they also show people getting arrested so you know these things they it does act as a det deterrent because you don't want to be in that situation so many people they
21:08 just decide that all then I rather just you know do the things right don't scam don't turn to crime and so so it does act as DET deter as well and you understand and the next thing know not only M media but it is the people who are going to report to the legal system when something is being violated you know police doesn't have um some technology where as things goes wrong it it pop up you know like Teen Titans where as a crime happen you the TV start flash identify everything
21:54 you know police don't have that so unless someone call police that's when going to see them at a crime seat right so you understand the leg system it depends on people to report the problem because the police the court is not enough to fix or see certain problems taking place you know they're not going to walk around in people houses asking is everything going all right or you being abuse any domes violence anything they're not going to be any sexual assault they won be going around asking these things so you have to seriously report which is why reporting crimes reporting anything is very important
22:40 in um preventing certain things from happening most likely preventing certain lives from being lost we do tend to have a in um in for dead um snitches get St which is we do tend to say that we do um tend to not promote telling on the police but at the end of the day um I believe that you're always going to have law abiding citizens and when things happen they go straight to the police because really and truly the police know like many people might believe that the police don't know certain but they know they just don't have enough evidence or maybe they
23:26 haven't caught the person in the app to really bring them a jail or put them in a prison you know so a lot of the time the police really know everything going on and why it's because of the people now for the family this is very easy for us I mean the family the first agent of socialization right you're born into the family as well you're born into the family so they have to be your first the first first place you learn social order and about social control so parents would socialize their children into what is right and what is wrong so you know your your mother
24:12 father they tell you look before you cross the road um don't push any metal in electric you know they what what to do what to do you know and they prepare to go outside until they go to basic school or kindergarten right um they also they enfor the first means of punishment right a child is punished because he or she has some has done something wrong so you know every child been through this as a child you know you have to go through some form of punishment from your parents as a child you know so
24:59 maybe you drop the tablet and you know you get curing or so or you know um you leave the house and get cing you craw out of the house and so right understand that what did is so you won't do it again right so that's where you get your first means of so they act as agent of social control for people at a very young age you know many of the characteristics people um reflect outside on the road is what they really learned from their family from inside the home as well right people carry it outside with them um the family theyes religion the
25:48 mass media and education as well to enhance its roles and function in shaping the individual right you know um would they would use religion for letting the chel listen pray before you go to bed pray before you eat and all these things you know would use it same with the mass media as well um all things you know and it helps in to shape function as well so you see where you know the agents they're different but at the end day still depend on each other right the next one is
26:35 education now education has been cited as a form of control and we talk about it was it can be considered both formal and informal as well you know um we talk about the hiden curriculum how it enforces control and you know um posited by BS and GST the two Marxist which suggest that education institution enforce social control through implicit lessons and Norms you know you do learn this you know a lot of times um okay you PR you you see they say
27:24 walking lines you know walking lines to the class now it's a big Schoo you don't really need to walk in lines do you no but when you walk in line it create less chaos for a vehicle to pass you guys so you understand that there are rules there that you simp have to follow right now people have a you we do I think right now all schools would have like you know a certain amount of limit for your hair so like with a two in um on the pool or so you know for for your hair your hair height and so people don't want to follow it you know most most boys want because Boys in like growing
28:11 out their ha but some they follow it and you have to ask yourself you have to really ask yourself like why though it's because it's really teaching you um it's really teaching about the Norms of society you know and teaching you some lesson as well not only that as well um people spend more time at school actively in the home for the first 18 years of life so if you're a student majority of your time majority of your life you have spent at school you spent about you spent like around 8 hours at school right by the time you reach home school a lot of schools over from like um 3:00
28:59 really to 5 like 3:00 yeah over 3:00 and you know 3 to 5 um that's just um 2 hours as well 3 to 5 just probably do home then 5 to you know say proba sleep or you School actually take up a lot of your time and you realize that what school really is that it provides a toes there's students to be compared to students um being on the road you know so the less students you have on the
29:45 road the L they most likely to become criminal or to be in any GS because they are at school so it also has that role as well you know you know people learn formal education which prepares them for work and you know keep them from becoming deviant as well so you see where school is very important the mass media okay so the mass media plays a significant role in social control by providing models of discipline for individuals to emulate to various forms of media such as the television movies and news Outlets The public's opinion on what is
30:30 considered acceptable or unacceptable behavior is shaped right so it's the mass media it simply provides a models of discipline for us to copy right helps shapes the public opinion on what is good or bad so it helps other agents to fulfill their role you know and as you mention we talk about it help the family and it help the leg system as well same with religion and education it helps them you know because it's what um get the information out there and as we are living in a digital time where communication is taking place
31:18 everywhere the mass media it serve as like the medium for this for information as well right so educate public and the consequences of being devant so you know you see many videos online of people being arrested you a lot of crime crime being committed and the punishments they receive people going to prison you see a lot of prison documentary about how prisons are bad you know it's it's it's really being shown so that people deviate from these problem you know so that they they will act as a det deterrent you know it actually works and so one of the
32:04 criticism of the mass media is that the mass media can be it can be an awful agent of social control as well music and movies can do more harm to society because you know it does promote devian lot of them promote Devan you know like a gun show action shows as well uhhuh you a lot of shows that are just well it's not rated for children it's not rated PG but at the end of the day children are going to watch it you know a lot of parents aren't um they're not looking over what their children are watching they're not
32:50 um checking and ensuring that their children are watching safe content they just give the the child the taet as a way of controlling them as a way of ensuring that they are quiet and and everything good which isn't good because the children they just surf in Internet fre and we all understand how easy it is to find certain things to see certain images certain videos as well you know it's it's not it's not difficult to find a nude picture of someone on the Internet it's not difficult at all you just need to type in the words but it it pops right up right so you see where
33:37 they're heavily criticized for that as well and so this is one of the reason why Miss information is a major problem in modern media because a lot of me personally let me tell you about me person if it's if it doesn't come on the news I won't be quick to believe it so if I see it on the internet you know I won't to believe a lot oftimes you see they post famous celebrities about how they died and you have to wonder like did they really die because if they died feel like you have seen it on News until research for your and realize
34:23 that it's a lie they still alive you know what about the people who they instantly believe it they they find out that celebrity they love died they get depressed right messes up their head maybe someone on the internet cyber bully cyber bullying is going on as well someone um created a post and a picture to someone saying that um their family M died they having a breakdown now so you see where misinformation it can be very dangerous for modern Med media okay so the healthare system
35:09 now the healthare system um Healthcare Systems serve as a positive agent of social control you know um it encourages people to be responsible about our health which is very true enforce the practice of no smoking and other Heth issues as well you know and through education treatment and preventive measures it plays a significant role in shaping in shaping individual behaviors and promoting overall societal health and wellbeing right so you know the healthare you know always talk about
35:55 having good health it it's it's still a form of social control you know it's it it may not be seen as that um strong or that powerful such as the others like the impact they really have you know may not but it actually does you know um let's say for example the healthare system now with the the no smoking you know they there there are laws out there that certain products like the the cigarette boxes they have to have they have to say that you know the dangers of it for you know pregnant women and all have to state that smoking kills you know
36:41 because if it doesn't state it more people will be will freely just go ahead smoke and damage their own lungs right we understand that um how dangerous lung cancer is or a lot of L you know you need your lungs to breed so if you have a problem with it you're not going to breed and if you can't breed you simp can't live it's as simple as that so you see where yes the health system it doesn't as a social agent of control as well a agent of social control as well yeah and that is it uh
37:28 I don't so I don't think we over religion we did men religion a lot but you know as for religion it act as a means of bringing social changes and shared consensus right you know so people are afraid to do things because they fear to anger God you know so religion attracts morality with simple actions historically the church was was an important institution it had influenced the actions for of the legal system family and media for example The Ten Commandments are Incorporated in legal system as well you know the laws
38:14 against murder do shall not kill exactly so um work well with the other social control agents as well you know especially the family yeah um critics well let me see critics critics have looked at secularization you know religion has lost its significance due to the secularism yeah you know people are just not so religious anymore you know they are less Reliant of using religion to explain social phenomena and maybe one of the reason why is that it has do like maybe the changes with Society you know
39:00 like people you know using religion to like um try and justify certain things people might you know find it just offensive like you know you might be offending someone or they don't see it as like strong enough cuz it's like you're trying to base your explanation on things that aren't proven or you know things like that so yeah I believe that that's one of the reason why religion you know it's not really people not really use it like thatmore you know not much religious anymore yeah and we're at the end um I'm definitely going to edit the religion part into the video at the end so for the last screen I'm going to show the
39:47 religion part for you guys but yeah we're at the end as well thanks for making it this far if you have um you know I always want you guys to support by subscribing for me leaving a like even a comment I really want to leave comments as well me to like like maybe want to make changes anything you know nobody's perfect as well so I really like receiving comments on any work that I do as well [Music]
