THEORIES OF SOCIAL ORDER, 2nd ED.
Edited by Michael Hechter and Christine Horne
THEORIES OF SOCIAL ORDER, 2nd ED.
Edited by Michael Hechter and Christine Horne
THEORIES OF SOCIAL ORDER, 2nd ED.
Edited by Michael Hechter and Christine Horne
  

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Far From Heaven is a recent film that lays bare some of the social norms that held sway in 1950s America, but are now politically incorrect.

The first half of Full Metal Jacket – presenting Marine Corps basic training in the late 1960s – reveals how young American adults were socialized into new norms to prepare them for war in Indochina.

Witness plunges Harrison Ford, a Philadelphia homicide detective, into an Amish household to protect a young child from his predators. It portrays the high level of solidarity among the Amish (in particular, see the barn-raising scene) and the police.

In Gung Ho! hapless American autoworkers on the verge of unemployment are rescued by a Japanese buyout. The new Japanese managers attempt to instill group solidarity into the production process.

The 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Seconds, starring Rock Hudson, is a good illustration of the perils of individualism, among other things.

Peter Sellars' production of Mozart's great opera Don Giovanni (1990) illustrates some of the key aspects of Freud’s argument in Civilization and Its Discontents. The libidinous, hedonistic Don Giovanni—a creature entirely innocent of a superego—threatens the social order. His reward for this egregious behavior is to be dispatched to hell.