Institutions sets of interlinked organizations designed to meet societal needs o Characteristics hierarchical interdependent competitive prescribed not chosen mores conservative unique specialized bureaucracy stratification and inequality minorities social structure their uniqueness represents the heart of culture involves symbols style of dress fads part of our social self ourselves souls our me identity environments we were both socialized in o Dimensions major functions interrelations major types social change policy issue o Models Order universal functional Conflict power organization Interactionist socialization and o Hierarchy political as regulatory economy as functional and demanding family religion education media as intervening major functions of each roles Family Functions and Ideas Miniature society in the primary form Its legal moral and microcosm Relations Role continuity Major Types historical lineage distinction vs nuclear marriage forms careers re marriage Social Change It becoming more nuclear single parent gender dual career re marriage Order see as functional and adaptive the nuclear family is based on tradition and is affective because it adapts to change but keeps its internal self making it efficient Conflict power arrangement deals with internal stress conflict and sometimes violence Interactionist socialization and certain types of relationships family relationships are narrowly defined particularly when younger Policy Issues family education inequality new forms of marriage Economy roles and ideas institutions production Functions physical and material needs roles as in the division of labor stratification values norms Relations It supports the other institutions in revenue and lobbying but very demanding on these Major Types History agricultural vs industry Socialist vs capitalist state vs private service vs Social Change Expanded through technology becoming more bureaucratic more tied together Order view functional adapted division of labor Conflict view changing resources distribution changing power arrangements and stratification Interactionist view roles socialization effect of media entertainment advertisement types of interaction Policy issues access to education job market less than open access sot fulltime jobs and benefits Politics Functions Social control relates to mores Vapor s authority power and control legit underlying control and acceptance to monopoly we have an ideal model of what society should be and its solutions are utopia Relations We tend to focus on politics through the media tends to use and monitor other institutions Major Types Shifted from inherited to representative largely indigoes vs opposed outside set up their own political system pluralistic vs elitist effective vs legitimate LIPSET Stable government are both stable and effective Social change internet based more international media based become more global or international Order view either representative people run for office we select people who best represents us pluralistic two groups compete more flexible compromises are reached no one has veto power over the rest Conflict view power elite Interactionist view in terms of early family socialization then those role models experiences that may change our political perspectives roles that affect us the types of values and political behavior we engage in Policy Issues campaign financing protection of minority rights individual rights freedom and case of national security Education Functions Secondary socialization powerful effect on society roles stratification minorities exclusion segregation different types of schools and programs low status not viewed as productive necessary but people do not want to pay for it educators are paid very little Relations Dependent on other institutions but it is demanding dual relationship Major Types Elitist open college prep academic Vocational and non college prep Social Change Become more bureaucratic more vocationalization related to the work market Order view meritocracy places us in the best place for society career wise Conflict view reflects changing economy and job market exploits subordinate groups in relation to power elite needs Interactionist view educational socialization major effect on ourselves basis of me peers are important teachers and role models expansion of minds is important Policy Issues funding never ending system of reform inequality access to resources effects of social origin ethnicities gender race and trying to change those kinds of barriers Religion Functions and Ideas making mores sacred sacrilizing part of our cultural values stratification in Relations tends to reinforce tradition and authority may have an important role to play in rituals relation to churches and sex baptisms may monitor other institutions Major Types Moved from the Christian TOTEMIC supernatural beings to the Theological believe in super human type being have super hero powers churches sects separating from society democratic equalitarian more concerned with emotions Social Change More adaptive changed over time reverting to family recreation education counseling minorities found it helpful in civil rights movements becoming more technological been involved with politics Order view social order welfare Conflict view reflecting power elite and controlling most people by deferring their aspirations in the afterlife ensuring that they are socialized in the false consciousness Interactionist view socialization with in an early age which starts at a very early age Soul part of our inner selves Policy Issue of separation between church and state school issues having to do with prayer creationism vs evolution funding of private religious schools gay families religious use of public property Media Functions Focus on or economic socialization political education entertainment types of stratification culture limited minority participation in a very stereotypical pattern Relations Format conceptualize Dramatize issues and what goes on within them Major Types 3 types visual imagination thinking audio led absorption and use of our minds standardized visual view of ideas electronic and non electronic and their different distinctions Social Change Becoming more technological visual entertainment oriented more centralized Order view ties us together in this society creating a mask type society and popular culture we are socialized through the media we spend many hours with in it Conflict view
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