SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Married People, Social Stratification
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Types of groups have and have nots : social behaviors, social institutions. Social institutions are organized structures involving various social relationships to solve social problems. A relatively stable, shared patterns of behavior based on relatively stable vales. Meets people most important needs (e. g. for order, belief and reproduction) It includes the structural components through which most needs are met ( laws, religions and families) Therefore can speak of the family" as a social institution. Social institutions are stable patterns of behavior created and maintained through social interaction. Herbert spencer argued that institutions are like plants. Marx: all institutions are machines of oppression except proletariat institutions. Social instituions perform both manifest and latent functions: Intended and easily recognized (i. e. universities transmit knowledge) About 200 years ago: new social problems arose from: industrialization, urbanization and political revolutions. Also important, the enlightenment, the rise of science, new questioning of religion, belief and tradition. The two social revolutions particularly influenced the growth of sociology:
