We in our society

How to make humanity works the most efficiently in our everydayness?

Theoretical framework• Through my points and students’ participation to demonstrate that

society depends on the individuals’ social behavior.

• Humanity is embedded in society but people with visible and invisible behaviors may have attempt to diminish it.

• Laws, rules and institutions act in life through people and have been made by people. Their humanistic nature can be only presumed while in reality the ambivalent nature of the human practices may create imbalance of the social relationships at the expenses of humanity

• After their birth the people go trough a long-life process of enculturation

and socialization building their personal and social identity.

Personal and social identities

• Personal identity

• Social identity

enculturation socialization

Humanity

Humanity

• Reproduction

• Positive values

• Positive behavior

• Principles of solidarity

• Complimentary instead competitive thinking

• Diminishment

• Negative values

• Negative behavior

• Principals of egocentrism

• Leaving at expenses of others thinking

Society

• Structure • Processes

• Reproduction (inherited)

• Innovation

• Reproduction (traditional pattern)

•Innovation

Society: Structure

• Landscape (natural orderliness in interaction with people)

• Economic orderliness• Social orderliness • Political orderliness• Cultural orderliness

We live in this world as members of society. The people become members of society through a life-long process of

enculturation and socialization. In other words, we are always in process of development from personal and social identity

Landscape• Natural orderliness in interaction with

people

Example:

The Netherlands

Landscape

• Natural landscape

• Cultural landscape

Right or wrong?

Natural Physiography

• High hills• Low hills• Upland vales & valleys• Intermediate• Lowlands

• Known as National Landscape Typology• The underlying structure and physical form of the land surface• Derived from interpretation of the relationship between geological and contour data.

Economic orderliness

Components (independent or in interaction)• Hunter-gathering (foraging)• Agriculturalists (farming, peasantry,

horticulture)• Stockbreeders (pastoralists, nomadism.

herding)• Industrial (low-technology, medium-high

technology, medium-low technology, high-technology / manufacturing, electronics

Political orderlinessPolitical orderliness

• Government as a social-political organization

• Political parties

• Other political organizations

Example: Political orderlinessExample: Political orderliness

• Static or dynamic

• Hierarchy (e.g. countries; the European Union)

• Variable

Cultural orderliness

• Government cultural institutions

• Non-government cultural institutions (non-for-profit, private)

• The individual as a component of the cultural orderliness

Society: Processes

• Landscape reproduction

• Economic reproduction

• Social reproduction

• Cultural reproduction

Society: Processes

• Social changes

• Migrations