+1 862 207 3288 In society some form of order is an essential foundation for people to live and interact together. The philosopher Charles Taylor (2004 p.58) argued that the human capacity to imagine order is at the foundation of society itself. To understand social order we must first retain the idea that human behaviour has not always been as it is now, nor will it remain the same. Social order draws in the imagination, practises, the fitting together of people and thins and ideas about the past and the future. While there are many ideas about how social order is produced I have chosen to look at those of Erving Goffman (1959, 1971 and 1972) and Michel Foucault (1972, 1977 and 1978) in an attempted to explain how social order is created.
Erving Goffman developed a number of studies all concerned about the functions of rituals and order in everyday life, showing the ways in which social order…(short extract)
