Compare and Contrast Two Accounts of Disorderly Behaviour
In contemporary society the public believe that life is approached in a free-for-all attitude however social order and disorder govern are initial motives of ‘uniformity’ so in this assignment I will seek to compare and contrast disorderly behaviour through examining, ‘How is society made and disorder connected in social life’, through the theory of the Buchanan Report and the mass media. I will also evaluate how and why the intervention of Anti Social Behaviour (ASBO) promote the aspect of repairing and making social order is wrongly applied, and how the London Transport for London (TFL) is an entity of making and repairing social order. I will also examine the question, ‘who gets to decide what is order and what is disorder?’. This will be compared and contrasted through the theories of Erving Goffman and Micheal Foucault who are two social scientists attempting to give an explanation to how order is created in society and where it originated from.
My first question I like to examine is who gets to decide what order is?. According to Erving Goffman (1959) order in society is made and remade through the interactional order and performances, such as people performing roles in specific contexts to convey a designated air of ‘servility’. This would accommodate bodily ‘deportment’ and ‘gazes’. Goffman says this discourse of interaction forms ‘a set of rules of conduct’ (Silva B. Elizabeth, 2009, p. 317) that determine the dominant ways of thinking what the imagined social order. Goffman withstands that social order is presented through everyday practices and actions people play as they live their lives.
Evidently Goffman gathered his evidence as a participant observer in ‘restaurants, hotels and hospitals’ (Silva B. Elizabeth, 2009, p. 317) whereby his everyday interactions were explored by examining through a variety of social situations. Although social order can be seen here on a micro, I believe disorder seems to loom on a more macro. This can be seen
My first question I like to examine is who gets to decide what order is?. According to Erving Goffman (1959) order in society is made and remade through the interactional order and performances, such as people performing roles in specific contexts to convey a designated air of ‘servility’. This would accommodate bodily ‘deportment’ and ‘gazes’. Goffman says this discourse of interaction forms ‘a set of rules of conduct’ (Silva B. Elizabeth, 2009, p. 317) that determine the dominant ways of thinking what the imagined social order. Goffman withstands that social order is presented through everyday practices and actions people play as they live their lives.
Evidently Goffman gathered his evidence as a participant observer in ‘restaurants, hotels and hospitals’ (Silva B. Elizabeth, 2009, p. 317) whereby his everyday interactions were explored by examining through a variety of social situations. Although social order can be seen here on a micro, I believe disorder seems to loom on a more macro. This can be seen
References: Kelly, B. and Toynbee, J. (2009) ‘Making disorder on the street’ in Taylor, S., Hinchcliffe, S., Clarke, J. and Bromley, S. (eds) Making Social Lives, Milton Keynes, The Open University. Silva, B. Elizabeth. (2009) ‘Making social order’ in Taylor, S., Hinchcliffe, S., Clarke, J. and Bromley, S. (eds) Making Social Lives, Milton Keynes, The Open University. Squires and Stephen (2005) cited in Kelly, B. and Toynbee, J. (2009) ‘Making disorder on the street’ in Taylor, S., Hinchcliffe, S., Clarke, J. and Bromley, S. (eds) Making Social Lives, Milton Keynes, The Open University. ‘The Making of order and disorder’ (2009) Making Social Lives [Audio CD 3], Milton Keynes, The Open University.