SOC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erving Goffman, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Definition: social institutions are common ways of patterning particular types of social relationships in a given society. They often have a particular purpose; and they are governed by various rules, roles, rituals, cultural practices, and normative expectations that operate within that social setting. They have their own systems for internal social control. It looks at a particular domain of social life. The sorts of rituals that would occur in different states may be the same. It is how people structurally relate to each other but around an organization. Definition: patterned social arrangements and relationships that are produced by -- but also constrain or shape -- individual actions and experiences. Social structures are made up of multiple, overlapping institutions, in which there is a band-and-forth between individual agency and structural constraints. Definition: the stable perpetuation of the basic patterns of a given social structure over time. The reproduction of the elements of social structures. There is a period of social reproduction.
