I'm Late, I'm Late, I'm Late, For a Very Important Blog Post: Social and Moral Codes

Soooo, having done the tutorial presentation on this topic, you wouldn't have thought I'd be so late with the actual post, but I guess the whole not doing the actual presentation till later threw me off a bit (lame excuse, but I'm sticking to it).

Social and Moral Codes are everywhere, literally, they exist all around us, whether we know about them or not. Every social interaction and situation in our lives is governed by these codes, whether it be in a tutorial class, having lunch with a friend or living on a tour bus (see, tutorial presentation reference right there...I'll post the link at the bottom).

The example from the reading, the convict code, might be hard to relate to for some of us, but that doesn't mean that it's not a valid one. This is because the codes we follow are all dependant upon the context they exist in, without that context most codes lose their meaning, so while the things in the convict code may seem socially and morally unacceptable or wrong to us they make sense for those that live under the code. On that note though, I'd like you to think about high school, particularly the later years of high school...
Thinking about it? No?...Just do it already!
Okay good, now then, how did you and the other people in your year act when someone had done something wrong?
Odds are most of you pled ignorance when a teacher asked about it...
So then, how is that any different to some of the aspects of the convict code? (rhetorical question for the win)

And now back to our featurue presentation, Social and Moral Codes:
As I was saying, these codes are Ceremonial in nature (I'm pretty sure I'm remebering the right term there), remove them from their given context, and they lose their meaning. Furthering my ability to link codes with past stuff, they are also, fairly obviously, Habitus, as I pointed out earlier in this incredibly in depth, mind blowing blog post, we act within them whether we know about it or not. Perhaps the strongest link for Social and Moral Codes though is with Rules of Conduct, the Codes that are around us are what shape our obligations and expectations. Breaking these obligations and expectation (I'm already sick of writing both of those, are you over reading them both?), meaning that you are going against the Code that your working within, can have damaging consequences for your Face (see a few blog posts ago for more on Face). To use an example from my part of the presentation, if you were to break the bathing rule of the Code of the Road, it's pretty easy to see how your reputation could be damaged.

And that's it from me

Presentation link:
http://prezi.com/bfh1v4kvnnuf/social-and-moral-order-in-talk/