The Role of Matter in Making Social Worlds Secure or Insecure
What role does matter play in making social worlds secure or insecure?
The aim of this essay is to illustrate the role that matter plays in making social worlds secure or insecure.
This introduction will give a brief overview of what this essay will include, also giving brief definitions of any key theories and concepts that will be used throughout.
To discuss the role that matter has in the securities and/ or insecurities of social worlds, this essay will use examples which are discussed in the DD308 course book Security: Sociology and Social worlds. (Carter et al, 2008).
There are a number of questions that will be discussed in this essay such as, what do sociologists mean when they refer to something as ‘matter’? What is a ‘social world’? And how is a social world made secure or unsecure?
Also mentioned will be a number of theories and concepts, here is a few brief definitions of those mentioned in this essay.
So what is meant by ‘matter’? Matter is the name used for anything that can be touched or used, it can be human bodies or buildings, even objects found all around us, matter is anything that can be used to affect the world socially.
What is a social world? A social world is a concept that was introduced by the Chicago school of Sociology and is used to describe a particular area of a person’s life. For example, an organisation they are part of, a working environment, even someone’s home and family. (Carter et al, 2008)
Other terms that will be present in this essay will include, ANT (Actor network theory) this is one of the main frameworks that are used by sociologists when they are examining science and technology, ANT is used when looking at the specific roles that ‘Actors’ (human and non-human) play in their given networks. For example, if we look at a supermarket as a ‘network’, the ‘actors’ would be items such as the freezers, cashiers and tills. All these actors have a role to play in their given network, but they are often not thought about until
The aim of this essay is to illustrate the role that matter plays in making social worlds secure or insecure.
This introduction will give a brief overview of what this essay will include, also giving brief definitions of any key theories and concepts that will be used throughout.
To discuss the role that matter has in the securities and/ or insecurities of social worlds, this essay will use examples which are discussed in the DD308 course book Security: Sociology and Social worlds. (Carter et al, 2008).
There are a number of questions that will be discussed in this essay such as, what do sociologists mean when they refer to something as ‘matter’? What is a ‘social world’? And how is a social world made secure or unsecure?
Also mentioned will be a number of theories and concepts, here is a few brief definitions of those mentioned in this essay.
So what is meant by ‘matter’? Matter is the name used for anything that can be touched or used, it can be human bodies or buildings, even objects found all around us, matter is anything that can be used to affect the world socially.
What is a social world? A social world is a concept that was introduced by the Chicago school of Sociology and is used to describe a particular area of a person’s life. For example, an organisation they are part of, a working environment, even someone’s home and family. (Carter et al, 2008)
Other terms that will be present in this essay will include, ANT (Actor network theory) this is one of the main frameworks that are used by sociologists when they are examining science and technology, ANT is used when looking at the specific roles that ‘Actors’ (human and non-human) play in their given networks. For example, if we look at a supermarket as a ‘network’, the ‘actors’ would be items such as the freezers, cashiers and tills. All these actors have a role to play in their given network, but they are often not thought about until
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