Social Institutions

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Social Institutions

• Social organizations and arrangement that perform
  the basic functions meet the needs of society,and
  are generally acknowledged by people as essential
  to societys survival.
• Major social institutions in society
• family
• economic system
• political system
• education
• religion
• health care

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Family as a Social Institution

• Family is the primary social institution that
  have performed the following functions
• Emotional support
• Economic support
• Nurture children
• Socialization of children
• Take care of the sick, the elderly and the
  disabled
• Regulate, control and channel sexual behavior
• Human reproduction
• Critical question what functions family play
  today?
• Why family changes?

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Functions of major social institutions

• Economic system
• Manifest functions organize and regulate the
  production, distribution and consumption of goods
  and services
• latent functions reproduce the stratification
  system and maintain social inequality.
• Political system maintain internal as well as
  external order by exercising power and authority.
• Dysfunction state coercion, nationalism

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Changes in American economic system

• From Individual capitalism to corporate
  capitalism
• From laizze-faire to welfare
• From free competition to monopoly
• Convergence theory mixed economy

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Vision Statement

• Religious system meets social and individual
  needs
• (for individual) beliefs and spiritual
  support.
• (for society) promotes social solidarity and
  maintain moral standard, legitimize social
  stratification, promote social change
• Dysfunctions causes discrimination, persecution,
  strife, wars, and hinders social change.
• Educational system transmit knowledge, values,
  norms and ideologies (mainstreaming), provide
  training for the labor force, and reinforce the
  stratification system (gatekeeping, and
  tracking), and maintain inequality (reproduce
  social class).
• Health Care take care of the health well-being
  of the population, and cure disease (preventive
  medicine vs curative medicine).

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Criminal Justice System

• Manifest function deter and control crimes.
• Three parts of criminal justice the police
• 
  court
• 
  prison
• Critical thinking question?
• Criminal Justice in America deter crime?
• Prison for correcting and rehabilitation?

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Why Criminal Justice Fail to deter crime?

• America prison is a school to learn to become
  more criminal.
• Problems internal structure inconsistent with
  the goals.
• Gap between written laws and laws in practice
• Social structural factors affect law enforcement
• Law is subjected to individual interpretation of
  judges and officers.
• Social construction of brutality group conformity