SEP 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Change
20 Jan 2017
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Values: criteria to assess desirability, correctness or merit of objects, ideas, acts, or events. Statuses/roles: social positions and behavioral expectations for individuals. Social institutions: social arrangements to coordinate behavior in key areas. Unpacking the macro level norms: societal prescriptions for how one should behave in a situation. Status/roles: social position (status) and behavioral expectation (roles) Social institutions: social arrangements that channel behavior in prescribed ways in important areas of social life. Table 1. 2 common societal problems and resulting institutions. Sexual regulation, stable units that ensure continued births, care of children. Production/distribution of goods and services, ownership of property. Understanding the transcendental; life, death; humankind s place in the world. Sport has become a social institution: safety valve to dissipate energy, tensions, and hostile feelings; athletes as role models; uses rituals and ceremony to reinforce values of society. Approaches to explain social life theories help us guide thinking and focus attention on specific factors.
