Society Lecture

Society is living, it is where an arranged set of people who are connected through fellowship, a bond through marriage or mutual interest. Society is about creating new structures with people, bonded through fellow men and citizens.

The government is part of a social contract, they hold the power and they give it to the police to control society.

State repress a hierarchy for freedom/ a way to live/ life/ new life.

First Things First Manifesto is a cry to smash capitalism. Non capitalists support skill sharing, mutual aid and working together to fight capitalism.

Papanek say that people design stuff to allure to the people rather than for needs.

Treating people as an end - using people as a means to an end.

Should socially and ecologically responsible design be the only kind of design?

How do we determine what is socially responsible? Understand what is ethics? What it is to live a good life? What it is to be free? And not repressed?

Ethical theories 

Subjective relativism  

There are no universal norms of right and wrong - all persons decide right and wrong for themselves "I did this because it felt right and made me happy". People working for themselves and their own interests rather than for other people.

The condition of capitalism and postmodernism put in rules in which people in society have to abide by. 

Cultural relativism 

The ethical theory that what's right or wrong depends on place and/or time. Racism used to be okay.

France has banned the hijab because they feel it's a symbol of patriarchal society.

Devine command theory 

Good actions are aligned with the will of God. Bad actions are contrary to the will of God. The Holy book helps make the decisions. People in the same religion have different attitudes but still follow the same book and beliefs.

Kantianism (deontological ethics) - Immanuel Kant - German philosopher

People's will should be based on morals therefore it's important that our actions are based on appropriate moral rules to determine when a moral rule is appropriate Kant Proper way.

Stereotype creates prejudice and a divide.

John Stuart mill - utilitarianism - generally makes the world a better place 

Anarchists don't believe in the state of police force but from the utilitarianism believe that they do make the world a better place.

Social contact theory - Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Formed through the idea to make society work and stabilise society - break social contact - break society - born out of a revolution