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Social Institutions

Family as a Social Institution. Family is the primary social institution that have performed the following functions:Emotional supportEconomic supportNurture childrenSocialization of childrenTake care of the sick, the elderly and the disabledRegulate, control and channel sexual behaviorHuman

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Social Institutions

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    1. 9/1/2012 Social Institutions Social organizations and arrangement that perform the basic functions meet the needs of society,and are generally acknowledged by people as essential to society’s survival. Major social institutions in society: family economic system political system education religion health care

    2. Family as a Social Institution Family is the primary social institution that have performed the following functions: Emotional support Economic support Nurture children Socialization of children Take care of the sick, the elderly and the disabled Regulate, control and channel sexual behavior Human reproduction Critical question: what functions family play today? Why family changes?

    3. 9/1/2012 Functions of major social institutions Economic system: Manifest functions: organize and regulate the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services; latent functions: reproduce the stratification system and maintain social inequality. Political system: maintain internal as well as external order by exercising power and authority. Dysfunction: state coercion, nationalism

    4. Changes in American economic system: From Individual capitalism to corporate capitalism From laizze-faire to welfare From free competition to monopoly Convergence theory: mixed economy

    5. 9/1/2012 Vision Statement Religious system: meets social and individual needs: (for individual): beliefs and spiritual support. (for society) promotes social solidarity and maintain moral standard, legitimize social stratification, promote social change; Dysfunctions: causes discrimination, persecution, strife, wars, and hinders social change. Educational system: transmit knowledge, values, norms and ideologies (mainstreaming), provide training for the labor force, and reinforce the stratification system (gatekeeping, and tracking), and maintain inequality (reproduce social class). Health Care: take care of the health well-being of the population, and cure disease (preventive medicine vs curative medicine).

    6. Criminal Justice System Manifest function: deter and control crimes. Three parts of criminal justice: the police court prison Critical thinking question? Criminal Justice in America deter crime? Prison for correcting and rehabilitation?

    7. Why Criminal Justice Fail to deter crime? America prison is a school to learn to become more criminal. Problems: internal structure inconsistent with the goals. Gap between written laws and laws in practice Social structural factors affect law enforcement Law is subjected to individual interpretation of judges and officers. Social construction of brutality: group conformity

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