Social types

Related closely to this ethical control is the fact that characters in this play also form a satiric spectrum of London social types. To fulfill the requirements of the satire, they must also be properly punished. As satiric examples, they are on the whole unchanging. Jonson, in fact, makes the point in the play that they do not learn from their experiences. 

While alchemical authors continued to write about alchemical theory and practice in the early modern period, they also began to comment on the alchemist as a social type, constructing a persona that could, ideally,... 

The major contribution to the study of the social typing process itself comes from the interactionist or transactional approach to deviance. The focus here is on how society labels rule-breakers as belonging to certain deviant groups and how, once the person is thus type cast, his acts are Interpreted in terms of the status to which he has been assigned. It is to this body of theory that we must turn for our major orientation to the study of both moral panics and social types. 

In the final chapter, the broader implications of these footnotes will be related to the whole question of de-amplification and how the growth of moral panics and social types ever becomes arrested. 

This miraculous potential for transformation endows plastics with a virtual quality that resonates with an ephemeral way of being, characteristic of our modern era. Just like the objects that increasingly populate their environment, modern human beings have come to be valued for their flexibility, availability, adaptability, and even their impermanence. The connotations of the word plastic are particiflarly rich in American culture, where the plastic man is a social type referring to a happy, superficial and infinitely adaptable person who is both the product and the producer of the new spirit of capitalism. Even for the anti-globalization movement that rejects the neo-liberal model for the world, flexibility, or plasticity, remains a positive trait. ... 

Fowles, S. 2002. From Social Type to Social Process Placing Tribe in a Historical Framework. In The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson, 13-33. Ann Arbor, MI International Monographs in Prehistory. 

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