SOC 302 1st Edition Lecture 9Outline of Last Lecture I. ConformityII. Different types of socializationIII. Cognitive structuresa. Different ways of thinkingb. Cognitive restructuringIV. To be humanV. Looking-Glass selfOutline of Current Lecture I. Moral OrderII. Narrativesa. Inconsistenciesb. Self-Evident truthsIII. LegitimationCurrent LectureWe won't understand people until we come to understand them as moral believers, and human social life as consisting of moral orders that constitute and direct social action. People trust certain things rather than testing everything. We have to have morality. Actions make sense within some moral order, even a moral order that may not make sense to people outside of that group. Order is a prevailing course or arrangement of things, or an established system. A key motivator of human action is to act out and sustain moral order. This makes life significant. We are always judging ourselves and other people. People only enjoy life by locating themselves within stories and cultural orders beyond themselves. This gives their lives purpose. Narrative is a form of communication that organizes human actions and events Ito organized wholes in a way that bestows meaning on the actions and events by specifying their interactive relations to the whole. Cultural "scripts" for different social roles are embedded in narratives. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Then there is role inconsistency, when expectations contradict each other. This isoften the result of competing scripts and ultimately, competing moral orders. The hierarchy of salience, or importance, is deciding which role is more important than therest. Roles are weighed against each other. People routinely violate moral codes. It's not true that they aren't acting morally, because moral dereliction reflects the existence of competing moral orders. Hypocrites aren't immoral, but people who are moral in terms of competing moral claims. All rationalization reinforces the existence of competing moral orders. Emotions display evidence of violated moral orders. History is often the struggle of moral orders. It also infuses day-to-day life. A key motivator of what we do is to act out and sustain moral order. Social norms are almostalways linked to larger, complicated normative systems within a larger narrative. It is important to note that narratives are re-used, rather than separate for individual people. The things we consider self-evident are always dependent on and meaningful in terms of worldviews that ultimately rest on empirically unverifiable beliefs. Evidence only makes sense from within a narrative. You can't look at it from outside the role. You cannot suspend belief. Even if you are committed to science, you believe in a story that has been written and refined over thousands of years. A lot of things we considered crazy are actually plausible. The degree to which s belief seems convincing reflects its plausibility structure, or the structure that provides support for a belief. For example, if they social support for something is strong, people will believe it. Things we think of as outlandish only seem so because we are not embedded in a group that supports those things. Legitimation refers to the process by which an act, process, or ideology becomesauthorized by its attachment to norms and values shared by a social group. It is the process of making something acceptable within a