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[...]... realism enters the picture What usually happens is that a particular culture is elevated above all others and treated as necessary and universal In the language supplied by Alfred Schutz (1962), this configuration of traits becomes the paramount reality and overshadows all other possibilities Having recourse to dualism allows a specific standard to be de-contextualized and promoted as a cultural ideal... social solidarity By internalizing particular social imagery, he believed, persons could be persuaded to join together and work in harmony Specifically, Comte advanced the idea that the social world was similar to a living organism And in a manner indicative of all living creatures, the parts of society are integrated and, at least in a healthy organism, operate together If persons accepted this portrayal... devoted to illustrating how society can avert any threats and be preserved While change has been acknowledged as possible, any benefits are presumed to be minimal Realists, in this way, emphasize socialization and the pragmatic character of acceptable behavior Basically, rational persons learn the rules of the social system and do not stray far from these standards This view of social order is consistent... represents a thoroughly abstract place Social life, stated simply, does not necessarily consist of a mass of individual atoms At the marketplace all connections are disparaged or ignored, although 8 John W Murphy and Karen A Callaghan exceptions are made sometimes to this reality For example, although charity is optional, but often encouraged, a common humanity is recognized Nonetheless, this association... from Sartre‘s (1969) examination of anti-Semitism, this scenario might be characterized as the metaphysics of assimilation The Sociological Tradition, Realism, and Social Control 21 As an example of realism, this metaphysics permits a unique and historically specific cultural manifestation to be dressed-up as a universal (Gilroy, 1993) Located in an a- historical sphere, these rules can be treated as... the United States will be balkanized and unmanageable 22 Karen A Callaghan Basic to immigration policy has been the idea that Anglo culture must be instilled in immigrants without compromise In this regard, Samuel Huntington (2004) argues that Mexicans are a threat to the American way of life, because of their slow assimilation to the reality of the United States Even continuing to speak Spanish in the... Gajo (1967) Marx in the Mid-twienth Century Garden City, NY: Anchor Polanyi, Karl (1957) The Great Transformation Boston: Beacon Press Scheler, Max (1961) Man’s Place in Nature NY: Noonday Press In: Toward a Post-Market Society ISBN: 978-1-61209-646-9 Editors: J W Murphy, K A Callaghan © 2011 Nova Science Publishers, Inc Chapter 2 THE SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION, REALISM, AND SOCIAL CONTROL Karen A Callaghan... utopian proposal extends beyond the current reality and, for that reason, may appear to be incomprehensible and unachievable But this judgment reflects simply the strictures imposed by a former reality rather than a basic principle Within the culture of the market, a post-market society is dismissed easily as little more than a dream After all, a commitment has been made by Introduction 11 advocates... of the market and their ideologues to a unique version of human nature and other personal and collective traits And according to these beliefs, social solidarity is a nice but unworkable idea The logic of a post-market society, accordingly, may be new but is not beyond the reach of human capabilities In this way, such a proposal is utopian A novel reality is proposed, in other words, that contravenes... of Parsons society is treated as an abstract totality In addition to being autonomous, society is self-organizing and self-determining And if they are sufficiently skillful, persons can plug themselves into the operation of this system at various stages of development The options that are available, however, are a product of the reality that is imposed by society Consequently, society is at least partially . Additional color graphics may be available in the e-book version of this book. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Toward a post-market. that the market is an aberration. This claim is contrary to the usual idea that this mechanism encourages a natural form of interaction. The typical