SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Acculturation, Auguste Comte, Symbolic Interactionism
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0 3 / 0 7 / 2 0 1 3 | 1. Social institutions: institution: a relatively stable, shared pattern of behaviour based on relatively stable values [nothing is completely stable because it is ever-changing] Values have to do with how people assess, and place value on different kinds of people, objects and practices these motivate behaviour. Value is at the core of our behaviour. How is it that social order is preserved so remarkably over long periods of time. Social institutions are stable patterns of behaviour created and maintained through social interaction. Interaction: a socially recognized pattern of interrelated acts. All social structures control us, change us, and both resist and produce social change. E. g. , to bring in education to a cultural group that has very little of it is hard. Sociology is the study of social structures. We can"t see social structures except by its effects (there is something producing the predicable order that we see every day)
