Social Institutions

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Social Institutions
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• What are social institutions?
• Purposes?
• Characteristics?

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What are social institutions?

• They are all around us
• Include
• Schools,
• Churches
• Peers
• Military

• Family
• Legal system
• Media

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Purpose

• Social institutions play an important role
  because
• They shape values and beliefs
• Maintain order
• Help societies to function

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Two kinds

• Personal
• Because they affect an individuals life
• Include family

• Impersonal
• Because they involve large groups of people
• Include government

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Characteristics

• Usually have existed for a long period of time
• Well established (entrenched) structure
• Change occurs slowly
• Each has a specific purpose-
• Members are held together by shared values and
  beliefs

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My Family In the 50's

• Students are to write a brief paper about their
  family during the fifties. They are to interview
  either their parents or grandparents to find out
  what life was like for them during their teenage
  years (during the 50's). This paper should
  include their likes, dislikes, concerns, greatest
  moments, what they remember best and so on.

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My Family In the 50's

• You will need to prepare a list of questions
  before interviewing their family members. Take
  the information from the interview and write a
  short paper. (Paper should be typed with a cover
  page). The paper should also introduce the family
  member to the reader.
• Due date