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Universal Thoughts & Questions

Universal Thoughts & Questions. Society. an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes (www.dictionary.com). Community.

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Universal Thoughts & Questions

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  1. Universal Thoughts & Questions

  2. Society • an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes (www.dictionary.com)

  3. Community • a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage (www.dictionary.com).

  4. Society vs. Community • Society is on a larger scale • Community is more localized • So, for instance… • RHS can be a society • Class of 2010 can be a community

  5. What unites a group of people?

  6. How did our nation unite after this incident?

  7. How did this tragedy unite our community?

  8. How will this disaster unite our world?

  9. How do these celebrations unite families and friends?

  10. What divides a group of people?

  11. Segregation

  12. Religion

  13. Homosexuality

  14. War

  15. How do people react to the unknown or abnormal?

  16. Charla Nash: victim of Chimp Attack

  17. The Brown Lady

  18. What fundamental components have made up and currently make-up most society’s?

  19. Political Structure: Government Types of Government • Monarchy: rule by one person • Oligarchy: rule by a small group or committee • Democracy: rule by the people (through voting) • (Theocracy itself, or rule by a god or gods, is not a form of government. There may be theocratic monarchies, oligarchies, or even democracies.) • (Anarchy: no government structure. Each person takes care of him/herself.) Functions of Government • Legislate: make laws • Adjudicate: judge laws • Execute: enforce laws

  20. Economic The Three Factors of Production • Land: raw materials, natural resources • Labor: human effort, mental or physical • Capital: tools Distribution and Trade • Direct barter: exchanging one good or service for another • Indirect barter: using a symbolic token to procure what is needed Consumption: Use of Goods

  21. Social: Customs, Education, Groupings Customs: Ways of doing things. weddings, funerals, ceremonies, rites of passage Education: learning ways of doing things in order to be an effective, responsible member of society. levels of education, self education, family education, application, college, tech school Groupings: things that distinguish individuals from one another Race, gender, economic status, religion

  22. Religion: Existence • What all religions have in common • Separation of spiritual and material reality • Material is transitory; spiritual is permanent • Some form of ritual/practice to focus the mind on the spiritual

  23. Artistic/ Intellectual • Intellectual (from Latin intellego: I understand/perceive) • Attempts to understand/discern the world/society/individual, inquiry into the nature of things. Types of Art • music • visual arts • dance • drama/literature • Functions of Art • Art as communication (with God, society, other individuals) • Art as didactic/teaching • Art to give pleasure (catharsis) • Art to praise or criticize society • Art for art’s sake (ars gratia artis)

  24. What happens if those components become skewed or absent?

  25. What would happen without… • Government to oversee laws and systems? • Economic structure to help provide balance for the people? • Social customs or rituals? • Systems of Education? • A belief in a higher power or spiritual being?

  26. If you are a good citizen, you always do what the government expects?

  27. Maria Shriver, First Lady of California, breaking the state’s No Cell Phone Law

  28. Have you ever broken the law? Would you consider yourself a good person?

  29. You should always defend your friends and family no matter what, even if it means lying for them?

  30. Balloon Boy

  31. Would you lie for a family member? Is this what is expected?

  32. Every society needs a scapegoat.

  33. How does the US use the President as a scapegoat?

  34. Who did he use as a scapegoat for the fear tactics he employed? When things began to fall apart, how did McCarthy use scapegoats? Senator Joseph McCarthy

  35. Who did Hitler use as his scapegoat for his plan? Would you consider Hitler a scapegoat? Hitler

  36. It’s human nature to obey.

  37. Think of how many people followed Hitler? Why? What did he offer them? What did he cause them to fear?

  38. What other groups or organizations do people follow? Why do they do so even when they know it is most likely wrong?

  39. People who do cruel things can still be good people.

  40. Jaycee Dugar was held captive in a series of backyard tents for over 18 years. The man who abducted her also fathered two children with her.

  41. Strangely enough Jaycee never attempted to run, even though she had the chance. Does this mean that the man who abducted her was not as evil as thought?

  42. People’s concept of evil is universal.

  43. Define Evil. • What do you have to do, or be, to be labeled evil? • What is evil in our society? • How has our image of evilness changed over the past 100 years?

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