Social Stability In Brave New World

What is social stability? According to ReversoDictionary it’s, “living or preferring to live in a community rather than alone”. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, stability means much more than that. In the World State the government takes full control of every aspect of the people’s lives; even going as far as to brainwash the community into being content with their lives. Through genetic engineering people are mass produced and then conditioned into certain castes that they’re forced into for the rest of their short lives. Technology has been made to eliminate all suffering and a widely used, if not overused, drug called Soma has been created to diminish any pain. Individuality is stolen from the people of the World State and they have no way of understanding their dissatisfaction because the government has manipulated their entire existence. Conditioning, drugs, and promiscuity aren 't the only things in life a person will need to feel satisfied; we as human will always yearn for more, which is why going as far as the World State did for social stability is wrong.

Huxley’s warning of entrusting powerful technologies exclusively to the state is undeniably the central basis of Brave New World, and in light of recent domestic and global events, Huxley would undoubtedly be disappointed in modern society. One illustration of the World State’s control over such technology is in the rigid control of reproduction through several different measures, the most notable being the Bokanovsky Process in which an egg “will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before” (Huxley 6). Thus the Bokanovsky Process results in ninety-six identical individuals, a step

First, community is reinforced when the phrase “every one belongs to every one else” is said by Lenini, Fanny, and later Henry Foster(Huxley 43, 46). This introduces the idea that the people in the community are a support system for each other. Second, the idea of identity is reinforced by the separation of the classes and the value for intelligence. The higher classes are looked up at because of their intelligence and ability. On the other hand, the lower classes are looked down upon because of their lack of intelligence and ability. Third, stability is reinforced when the Controller says “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability(Huxley 42).” He stresses the importance of stability of society and goes on to explain that war and unhappiness is caused by an unstable society. Also, he explains how far society has come and the struggle to establish the “perfect

Social validity was introduced by Wolf (1978), in which the need to measure the acceptability and impact of a programmed intervention in the society by the consumers. Since then, there have developed several models with different components of social validity (Carter, 2011). For example, Reimers, Wacker, and Koepple (1987) conceptualized a “decision-making” model of social validity, which focused on the level of understanding of an intervention. They created a six-level flow chart with numerous potential outcomes related to the implementation of an intervention to evaluate the acceptability of the intervention. Later, Schwartz and Baer (1991) described a model that was based on Wolf ‘s (1978) social validity, which emphasized the most significant variables influencing intervention acceptability. Despite the various models of social validity, the assessment of social validity in current studies rarely matches with one specific model to take into account as a scientific tool (Schwartz & Baer, 1991). Therefore, the purpose of the current paper is to critique how social validity was evaluated in Towery, Parsons, and Reid (2014) article using the models of social validity in Reinmer et al (1987), and Schwartz and Baer (1991). In addition, suggestions to improve their social validity assessment are discussed.

Stability in the World State comes from people being content with their lives. It is sustained as long as the citizens are happy with their lives since Soma plays a vital role in the

Society as a whole has established its own set of norms, group membership, and status’ that individuals have to adapt to in order to fit in. Throughout the years, these norms have changed thus causing individuals to conform so they can be accepted and not labeled deviant. The quote “The individual…is not born a member of society” (Berger & Luckman, 1996:18) means that society is constantly shifting causing individuals to relearn what is normative and deviant so they can be accepted by society.

Workers at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre control the growth of the embryos, adding in or taking away nutrients to alter the physical and mental capabilities of the subject. The differences in chemical makeup of people leads to separation by castes. The Bokanovsky process creates 96 'buds' from one fertilized egg which produces 96 identical twins. When people look similar and are programmed to think the same way (through hypnopædia), there is little room for individuality and identity. Also, citizens are encouraged to take a drug called 'soma' which relieves pain, discomfort, and sadness.

This can be seen when individuals try to feel what true emotions are but never get to because they over use the drug. “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly” (Huxley). Bernard is tired of feeling the same emotions that soma gives when he takes it. He wants to feel something stronger than happiness, instead he wants to feel pain and discomfort. This support the idea that soma is a symbol for control over society. They cannot feel a different emotions because soma is in the way. When those strong emotions comes out they block and diminish it from happening. Characters are constantly searching for new emotions to experience because Soma is forced on them. Huxley displays this when he states, “Why you don’t take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You’d forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you’d be jolly. So jolly,” (Huxley 92). When characters attempt to feel other emotions they are encouraged to take Soma in order to hide in a fake reality or state of happiness. It allows them to step away from their problems when their feeling unpleasant feelings, and Soma as symbol to control its citizens can be observed though Lennie behaviors. Huxley shows us Lennie’s dependency on soma when he states, “One gramme, she decided, would not be enough, hers had been more than one-gramme affliction, but if she took two grammes, she ran the risk of not

Stability is really the sense of control over the society. “Stability,” said the Controller,” stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (Huxley 105). The society was tricked in a way so that they would always have to take

The society is made up of five classes and in the the lower classes people are cloned to produce up to 96 identical twins. “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before.

Why are the vast majorities of deviant behaviors routine and institutionalized and so few are considered innovative or idiosyncratic? The Routine behaviors are more common than innovative; don't require abnormal amounts of psychological capacity or include deliberate exertion; little exertion/no broad arranging (Humphrey & Schmalleger, 2012 Institutionalized social orders are a sort of institution, even families can go about as establishments. However, for the most part, the expression "institutional conduct" is utilized for jails, mental healing centers, halfway houses, substantial companies, and government organizations. The issue with most institutional conduct is that it may be unseemly outside that establishment. Practices that are gainful

This is a good thing because their are a lot of emotional people in our society and many of which do crimes do to their emotions. Another positive thing about a world with social stability is that crime rates could be lower in that world. The reason I believe this is because there is no visible evidence of crimes that have been committed in the world state. However, I believe that the negative effects of social stability are far more important than the positive effects. For example, their will no longer be families in existence.

Every form of politics needs to answer the questions of who has political power, what should the social order be like, and when should or shouldn’t the government interfere. So, who has political power? Each country has a form of government where there are one or many persons with power. In a democracy, the people elect the government. In a monarchy, power is passed on through the family, with no say from the people. In each political system, the social order needs to be determined by either the government or the citizens. That leads to, what should the social order be like? Here, we need to figure out if the government should “make” the citizens good, or should they be left alone. Social order helps us determine if the citizens or the government

Once an egg has been fertilized it will soon start dividing. When it divides into eight cell embryo and and they are all separated , those cells can be implanted into a uteri of eight people. These clones will be born from different mothers. This can often happen without trying to clone something

Society may be defined as a group of people living in agreement, having the same moralistic and judicial rules and standards. To live in a society, one must accept these standards and adopt them as their own. For example, living in the United States indicates that you respect the life, liberty and property of each individual, and you decide to accept the punishment if you violate any of these natural rights. Although one may not always agree with these standards, they choose to make sacrifices for the well-being of others. Society is responsible for creating an image of the ideal person, family, environment, and way of life. Our modern day society has dictated its own definition of beauty, happiness, and success. It seems society has accidentally tied these three together, and since these definitions are not universal, different societies may assign different meanings to each concept. Unlike societies explain why there are so many contrasting beliefs and viewpoints throughout the world today. The growth and morals of society are exclusively dependent on those who choose to be a part of something greater than them. Societies tend to grow only when people come to an understanding to be involved. Society is an accumulation of majority rule and the goals of the majority.