...Influence of Social Institutions: Family, Religion and Education Elizabeth Bouer SOC/100 May 30, 2016 Dr. Karly Way Schauwecker The Influence of Social Institutions: Family, Religion and Education Early philosopher and originator of Functionalism theory, Herbert Spence (1820-1903), compared parallels between the function of the human anatomy and society. “He argued that just as the various organs of the body work together to keep the body functioning, the various parts of society work together to keep society functioning” (OpenStax CNX, 2015, p.15 ). Just as the body has organs that help it to exist and thrive, society also has key components which attribute to its overall success. These essential parts of the successful and fluid existence of a society are referred to as social institutions. Social institutions are structures of principles or conducts, focused on achieving social needs. Six critically significant, outlines of social institutions are: government, education, family, healthcare, religion and the economy (CNX, 2015). Government has its benefits, in that it helps to structure, regulate and organize a society. Healthcare is an essential component, not only for the continuity of existence, but as well as for continuance of reaching full/highest human potential. The economy (more specifically its success), is a critical element for a society’s ability to endure, succeed and grow. However, for many, out of the six institutions, the three...
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...Social Institution A social institution is a group that someone lives and grows up in. These institutions or groups have a goal or task to complete. For example, a school is an educational social institution in which either children or adults go to learn a way of life. Social institutions are based on structures of relationships, functions, roles, and obligations. People who live their lives with the concept of right and wrong have positive values. People who do not consider these values are known to be antisocial. Social institutions that people learn their socialization from are religion, education, economic, and political. Social institution recognizes a community for social activity rather than legal boundaries. Second, the access points to the social activity are necessary for everyday living. These are very important roles if people want to be accepted in society (Lyman, 2007). Social Theories Theories are an underlying fact of certain observed phenomena that has been approved to some degree. The alien conspiracy theory blames outside people and outside influences on organized crime. The alien conspiracy supposes to be a fact that organized crime mafia gained attention during the 1860s in Sicily and that the Sicilians are responsible for the organized crime (Lyman, 2007). The alien theory states individuals involved with organized crime in Sicily and Italy had produced criminal organizations known as the Sicilian Mafia or Costra Nostra. These individuals migrated...
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...Social Institutions Arbre Flores SOC/100 Mar 18, 2016 Dr Lamb Social Institutions Social institutions effect all human beings across the globe. These institutions prepare, instill, and teach us some of the norms, morals, and skills needed for the world today. Social institutions are just that; they are standardized patterns or norms of society organized around the preservation of a basic societal value. Some institutions include family, education, and religion. These institutions are keen to development from child to adult, and they also assist in maintaining society. All social institutions are important, but I consider education to be one that stands out. Education advances us though knowledge, it helps prevent inequities, breaks down boundaries of ignorance and fear, and helps us avoid repeated historical mistakes. With education being such a vital institution it’s important that all humans receive an equal opportunity to learn. As seen in the Unbreakable video feminist theory still exist today. In many countries overseas women are still unable to obtain any benefits from educational institutions based on societies standards in that area. Malala addresses these issues head on, as a 15yr old girl she seeks the need for change and equal opportunity. During her quest to achieve educational benefits one of her biggest obstacles is how women are view in her country. Women in her country are labeled and not viewed as equal. There is no need to learn...
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...To understand the meaning of social institution as it relates to organized crime is to first gain an understanding of organized crime. Organized crime is a group of people involved in illegal activities. Social institution as it relates to organized crime is a group of people seeking their own financial or status gain. Social institutions are found in many societies made up by individuals consisting of leaders and followers in economic, socialization, and formal social control functions. The function of economics is a system of community activity to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services that make the existence of organized crime thrive. The communities’ involvement brings organized crime and economic institutions together (Lyman & Potter, 2007). When society needs social institutions involved with illegal activity, they help in the production as well as the distribution to meet those needs (Sociology, 2011). Socialization function is also a role in organized crime where community socialization accepts legal or illegal behavior (Lyman & Potter, 2007). These social institutions strengthen the social interaction patterns with families as well as other social groups within a community (Lyman & Potter, 2007). There are two types of social institutions involved with organized crime; one is the patron-client relationship where the leader is family oriented basing their normal living within society (Lyman & Potter, 2007). Next is the bureaucratic model, in...
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...Social Institutions Kelly Beam Criminal Organization Week 3 Thomas Borton A social institution is the area or group where a person lives or grows up. Getting an education creates a social institution because school helps to forming variable for the students who attend. The experience and knowledge a person receives in school, the environment a person grows up around helps them make the choices they make in life and develops what kind of person they become as an adult. Social Institutions relate to organized crime as being the theory we are all a product of the environment we grow up in. Most feel what we are exposed to within any kind of social group for any length of time we will start to adopt many of the ways and characteristics of that group. It seems to become our way of life or survival mode so to speak. It becomes much easier and appealing to want to be a part of a group that maybe a family member has been or someone else close to a person is or was a part of. Most people tend to stick to what they know, which in some cases involves organized crime as a result of a social institution. Gangs, mobs and any other type of organized crime group can be considered a social institution that people end up participating in because that’s what their environment consists of or did consist of most of their life. Many theories are applicable to organized crime and why criminal behavior exists and continues to occur. All of these theories involve the influences that social institutions...
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...SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Functionalism perspective focuses on how parts of society are functional and the connection between parts of society. A strength of the functionalist perspective is to work together to encourage stability. Another strength states that society is organized and systematic. It says that the basic needs have to be met in order for society to survive. One weakness is it puts a similarity between organism and society. Another weakness is it cannot describe social transformation. It also exaggerates the agreement that occur in society. Symbolic interactionism perspective focuses on face-to-face interaction and the use of symbols. A strength that exists in Symbolic Interactionism perspective is it takes in to account the choices individuals make and how they behave. Another strength is it is more valuable to individuals. It also gives understanding into small scale interaction. A weakness of symbolic interactionism perspective is the symbols can be misunderstood. Another weakness is it doesn’t describe social order and how it comes about. Conflict perspective focuses on how the best control the poor and the weak and the race for unusual resources. A strength in a conflict perspective is the importance of power and its role in interaction. Another strength is it speaks on how resources are restricted and this truth influences the relationship between people. A weakness is that not all interactions are analyzed in terms of conflicting interest and power relations...
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...University Individual Project # 1 Religion as a Social Institution Donald Ricker Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for SOC 205 Introduction to Sociology By Ray Cordero Colorado Springs, Colorado November 2010 Abstract Religion is just one of the many functions that make up social institutions. Understanding the definition of a social institution can be key to understanding human behavior. Recognizing religion’s overall function within this social institution can also help us create a better society. I chose to write about religion as a social institution because it reflects an area that requires an individual to take more of a “leap of faith” in my opinion. In other words, this belief requires a person to rely on things that may not be seen or something you can touch or feel. To explain my view of religion as a social institution I will give you a definition of social institutions and then I will cover its function from the religious standpoint. First, let me give you some definitions. Webster’s New World College Dictionary tells us that an institution is an “organization, society, or corporation, having a public character, as a bank, church, bank, hospital, etc.” Our course reference book further defines a social institution as “organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs” (Sociology 113). Finally, another definition would be that a social institution is a group of people who follow certain norms...
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...Family as a Social Institution SOC101 By Joshua Simpson If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother, and the teacher. (Abdul Kalam) For this paper I will be explaining how the American family is a social institution and the struggles that come along with it. I will be focusing on the American family and its traditions and also how divorce impacts the family and community. The American family can limit social contact but I can also flourish through the family. The modern American family as a social institution can be taken in many different ways. In some the typical American family known as nuclear (mother, father, and kids) is declining. The other type of family is extended or encompassing other relatives. These families are also called traditional families because these families are what Americans have come accustomed to. Thus because families are growing and allowing extended family in. another reason why they are declining because families are becoming one parent and the children or spit parents and the children live with extended family. Many people do not agree with this conclusion because there have not been any studies to show this but from observation and a look around your own community I sure you can find one of these untraditional families. There are many factors that contribute to families breaking up and becoming...
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...management and delivery of crime preventions programs and policies. The Philippine government has long been ineffective in solving crimes, many of which are characterized as being heinous. Rampant crime has plagued practically all levels of Philippine society and their occurrences have been largely attributed to weak and useless system that characterized the government, especially those mechanisms within it that are meant to address the crime problem. The Government its function is to make laws, implement the law and execute it. And also provide for the welfare of the members of the society. Like the Government, Religion would also emphasize the role played by religious institution in providing social control, societal norms, and other things that are important for a society. Crimes in religious institution are against to the teachings of their own belief. Anything we do that is against to the teachings of our own religion are considered as immoral and not morally good. In Roman Catholic Religion they follow rules, the 10 commandments, they set norms so that...
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...I am choosing to do dog fighting for the first part. To me people that support and encourage dog fights are sick people. I believe that it could be considered to be more than one theoretical perspective for a few reasons. I think mainly it is the conflict theory. I think that the human being is using its power on the poor animals. They have no voice and are forced to be violent and blood thirsty when most likely that’s not what the animal wants. They are forced to fight till death and if they lose they are usually injured pretty sever and just tossed to the side or killed by their owner. The owner has power of them. For dog fighting it’s hard to have certain culture components because it can come in all forms. There is no certain clothes or race or ethnic or gender that is set for dog fighting. Obviously usually it is men that get involved as opposed to woman. Maybe that don’t necessarily have a religion due to what they are doing. From what I have seen the majority of people that do support or participate are African American somewhere around their mid-20s or older. I feel that children that around this kind of behavior is defiantly learned. If you see your parents or siblings acting in this you see it is okay, and it’s not. They will learn that it is okay to treat harmless animals in a aggressive manor. I think that it does have a big effect on your family. Not only is it morally wrong it is also illegal. If you were to get caught participating in this...
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...different kinds of institutions-The rule of the game (Law), Social Technologies, Instituted Practices will be briefly introduced. Second part would be summarization of institutions’ evolution from different scholars. The impacts of institutions to economic progress would be mentioned separately here also. Then the third part would be how these three institutions’ combination influences the economic improvement, and more scholars’ economic progress concepts would be discussed together. In this part, three institutional issues would be used as framework to discuss the economic progress brings by institutions. In from family units to business units section, basically it would be how institutions organize a hierarchical social structure for efficiently managing to facilitate division of labor, divide the payoffs, and so on. Following the first section, peace, love, and understanding section argues that laws and language development build up trustable economic environment for strangers to cooperate. Last section is building computers out of people, which integrates two sections earlier and emphasizes institutions creating a web of social structures, norms, protocols, legal structures together making the whole human society as a computer that could self-organized deal with complex problems and pursue the same goal which individual cannot accomplish. In sum, take Taiwan as an example to illustrate all the ideas. 1.Introduction of Institutions: Started by...
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...What is the role of institutions according to North? How far does this theory go towards explaining the contours of world development in the pre-modern growth era? Maddison (2006) stated that he “would characterise the whole period 1000-1820 as ‘protocapitalist’”. He believes the transition from pre-modern to modern economic growth took place at around 1820. This will set the stage for this discussion. Within that period, there were two groups of countries which were differentiated by their deviation in economic growth. They were the Group A nations, which included Western Europe, Western Offshoots and Japan, while the rest of the world made up the Group B nations. The contours of world development in this era, largely shaped by Douglass North’s theory of institutions, can be categorise into two main subsets which are Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and population demographics, for the purpose of this essay. North (1990) defines institutions as “the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human action”. Institutions exist in every economy, in the form of either formal or informal constraints, developed to define the choice sets, within which individuals and organisations make their decisions. Economic growth is heavily dependent on the productivity of an economy, which in turn is affected by the costs involved. In the neoclassical world of complete information, the gains of trade are only negated by the costs...
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...Polanyi’s embedded economy notion indicates a person or a group of people participating in daily rituals that incorporate economics; their practice of economics is camouflaged in a social institution morally sought out by their personal beliefs. At the simplest level, economics is the distribution and production of goods. When an economic institution is embedded in a noneconomic institution, people do not think about the production and distribution of goods but about their daily routine and expectations within a community. A person can perform daily tasks completed by a thought process that they are doing this task for religion, family, legal reasons, etc. but they do not do it for economic purposes. Noneconomic institutions in an embedded economy are the core of society and shape a person’s mindset. A disembedded economy can be characterized as separating all institutions into their own categories. While every social institution does intertwine. Economics is the underlying factor in these institutions, economics demands it’s own institution because of the advancement of modern society. The disembedded economic process revolves around individual affluence and focusing on what goods are produced and distributed in order to reach self-accomplishment. Disembedded economies allow individuals to be selfish and reach your ideal welfare state. It’s important to note that a disembedded mindset ultimately evolved so that individually, we can reach affluence and differentiate...
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...ABSTRACT Title : Governance and Management Schemes towards Readiness of Public and Private Higher Educational Institutions to Institutional Quality Assurance through Monitoring and Evaluation Researcher : Helen P. Aquines Degree : Doctor in Public Administration Institution : Polytechnic University of the Philippines Year : 2011 Adviser : Dr. Adela Jamorabo-Ruiz The Problem The main objective of the study is to analyze the readiness of Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and Maritime Academy of the Philippines (MAAP) to Institutional Quality Assurance through Monitoring and Evaluation (IQuAME) by CHED and to propose some governance and management schemes. Specifically, this study sought answers to the following questions: 1. What are the profiles of PUP and MAAP in terms of: 1.1 Vision, 1.2 Mission, and 1.3 Philosophy/Goals? 2. How prepared are the two (2) Higher Educational Institutions on the IQuAME program of CHED in the following areas: 2.1 Governance 2.2 Quality of Teaching and Research 2.3 Support for Students 2.4 Relations with the Community 2.5 Management of Resources 3. What are the problems encountered in the implementation of the performance measures of IQuAME? 4. What are the governance and management schemes that may be adopted to assist the school administrators to the field of public administration? Research Methodology The study utilized the descriptive method of...
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...Research proposal Gender Discrimination and the Role of Education to Overcome it A. Introduction: 1.1 Background Discrimination is a growing problem in each and every society and it is deep rooted in the culture of many societies, which affect the everyday working life in innumerable ways. Discrimination is a well established phenomenon, which poses a great threat to economies, organizations and individuals. There is a wide range of knowledge which helps us understand the basics of discrimination and which provides us with the required data to interpret different cases of discrimination. The existing research further helps us understand discrimination in management of all kinds, especially that due to gender. There is a wide range of knowledge, which confirms the continuing existence of gender discrimination and its deep impact on the lives of individuals and their employers. (Ashberner, 1991; Arnold et al.1995; Davidson and Cooper, 1993; Marshall et al., 1995). Gender Discrimination is the worst of all discriminations and it badly affects the progress of any society. As mentioned above, discrimination has its grounds in the culture of any society. The prevailing thought in the society acts as a catalyst in worsening the situation of gender discrimination. Pakistan is no exception to this main problem which exists almost everywhere around the globe, even in the developed...
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