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Session 4

Session 4. Social theory, social institutions and power.

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Session 4

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  1. Session 4 Social theory, social institutions and power CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

  2. ...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces. Michel Foucault CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services 2

  3. The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them. Michel Foucault The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services 3

  4. Structuralism & Social institutions • Building blocks of social organisation • Patterned, organised ways of doing things in society • Have a relatively stable group of values, norms and roles designed to facilitate the achievement of a specific need or needs through established procedures • A guide as to what is to be achieved and a pattern for how it is to be conducted CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

  5. Social Institutions • education, work, legal system, government, media, economic system, marriage, religion, leisure, technology and family CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

  6. Social Institutions • education, work, legal system, government, media, economic system, marriage, religion, leisure, technology and family Develop a 'snapshot' of an institution specifying: • Customs / rituals • Common beliefs / sayings • Bodies of knowledge • Common symbols CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

  7. Social Institutions • education, work, legal system, government, media, economic system, marriage, religion, leisure, technology and family Develop a 'snapshot' of an institution specifying: • Customs / rituals • Common beliefs / sayings • Bodies of knowledge • Common symbols • Now ...DIRECT or INDIRECT socialiser? CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

  8. Social Institutions In structuralist sociology, institutions are the building blocks of social organisation. The way we understand institutions and how they work will give us a focus on issues of power and inequality. The choices that individuals make might feel free but can follow a social pattern connected to power. CHCCLD514A Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community services work and services

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