Thread by @k_tastrof

What would be the sociology of your favorite imaginary universes?
How could the social science concept apply in those worlds?
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1/Society
My hobby? Building societies. I imagine all sorts of communities, then I try to gather them and create laws.
Last year, I started a group of communities based on what kind of music people like. They are already fighting against one another.
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2/Research
— What do you like?
— Research
— OK, but you have to choose a field.
— Why?
— That's how research works.
— I don't want to find things I already know. I'd like to conduct a new kind of research, that you do, by just living your life.
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3/Field survey
He's conducted a field survey... in a field. Isn't it funny?
He stayed there, observing the cows and asking questions to the rare passersby.
He found nothing interesting, but came back relaxed.
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4/Norms
In our society, everybody can contribute to the definition of the norms.
If you embrace an unrecorded habit or way of life, you can report it as a new norm.
Of course, we already have thousands of them.
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5/Community
It isn't that easy to define what a community is, unless you decide that some characteristics are more important than others.
Why would people's tone of skin be more significative than their size or favorite cake? Each individual belongs to many communities.
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6/Agency
They advocated for more empowerment, but they didn't really want people to have agency. How could they keep control on people, while helping them to make their own decisions?
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7/Power
When they discovered that anger was a power source, the government decided not to change anything in their way of managing the country. They produced enough anger to stop using fossil fuels.
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8/Class
Now that climate change is an attested problem, we decided to avoid the use of fossil fuel for everyday purposes.
We suppressed all conventional transportation means, except for the first class, which is rarer.
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9/Socialisation
Each day, one can choose between socialisation or introspection.
You wake up, you scan your will and mood and you choose to go to work or to stay home, to work remotely or not to work at all.
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10/Domination
Hierarchy and domination was an usual modality of relationships between humans, even in families and couples.
Many people thought that equality made their mutual ties weaker.
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11/Structure
What structures our society isn't wealth, like for you, humans. All, on this planet is about cooperation, not competition. Nobody is more important than the others. We all depend on one another.
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12/Culture
This researcher claims that he and his colleagues have found signs of culture in a bacterial culture. Their belief is contagious. Once you start to observe things, trying to find patterns in the bacterias' interactions, you begin to see many.
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13/Interactions
We studied the way people communicated in the XXe century. But most of the corpus of written interaction is electronic. I'd like to show you a new kind of medium, which shed new light on  those people : the summer postcards.
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14/Conflict
While most people tend to avoid conflict, we, in our company, encourage it. We teach our employees how to manage conflicts and how to use them to work better.
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15/Stratification
In order to respect the stratification rules of our society, they built a second bridge above the one over the river, so that the wealthy people could avoid being with the others.
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16/Deviant
The proportion of deviant over conform people is reversed when comparing adult and adolescent populations. The latter need to test the laws and limits, in order to incorporate them.
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17/Gender
The Rukians don't really have a gender. They present some sexual differences, but this information is private, and only intimate partners have access to it.
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18/Anomie
Each time they were afraid of losing their dominant position and security, the reactionary movements accused the youngs of immorality and anomie.
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19/Habitus
"When you want to make contact with a new group, you first have to identify their habitus", the mother says to her son.
"If they look like that (she shows a picture), run for your life, they are human beings."
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20/Function
Deciding that everyone should receive a minimum income whatever function they have was a real progress. But what about the persons with no identified function? How to decide what is a function and what isn't one?
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21/Violence
Many researches address violence between individuals, but few study the violence of institutions against people, which is, sometimes the source of their anger.
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22/Capital
We don't want to be seen as human capital.
We are persons, with desires and aspirations.
Being lucrative isn't really one. Its' just a mean to stay alive.
If you kill us, we'll find another way.
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23/Segregation
In the moon village, they maintained a clear segregation between the tourists and the workers, the useless and the useful, the rich and the poor.
But the first were the one who paid for the other's work and presence.
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24/Stigma
The ancient greek letter that appears on more and more official buildings is called stigma. The graffiti artists intend to return to the institutions the shame they put on marginalized groups.
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25/Integration
When you arrive on our planet, you have to fill a questionnaire that will help us to find you the best group for your integration. If none is found, you can join any of them or create your own community.
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26/Race
At first, going in the space was a race between the wealthy countries.
Then, they understood how easier it was when they cooperated.
Everybody won the race for scientific knowledge and forgot about the economic war.
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27/Frame
My grandma had a framed picture of a landscape in the spaceship that brought humanity here. I assumed it was her home until I asked, mostly to be polite.
It was the lid of the chocolate box she had taken as a souvenir of Earth.
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28/Status
In this town, everybody wears the same brown jumpsuit. The social status is materialised by the number and colors of the gems they have on their rings. When you meet someone, you first watch their hands in order to know how to behave.
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29/Career
Your career management depends on too many factors for a human to be in charge of it. It's a typical task for those complex algorithms that everybody trusts and nobody understands.
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30/Institution
Cigarettes are officially forbidden within the institution, but if you stay long enough here, you'll soon discover the secret places where workers smoke, and drink, and have fun.
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31/Performativity
Have you ever thought about the performativity of a simple "I love you"?
You're not supposed to doubt when this is told to you.
You just accept the words and you expect some effects.
Therefore, you see them.
That's why you should always doubt.
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