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Our lives are shaped by...
✓✓ Social Forces.
Examples of Social Forces
✓✓ Groups, historical context, "social institutions"
Social Forces impact us differently depending on our...
✓✓ social location.
Social Location
✓✓ Characteristics of individuals we think are important.
Examples of social location...
✓✓ Gender, race, income, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, etc.
Society is a
✓✓ "social environment"
"Givens"
✓✓ taken-for-granted patterns that structure our choices--we
don't notice them.
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Social Institutions
✓✓ Family
Economy
Religion
Education
Politics and Gov't
Social Institutions ___ and ___ society.
✓✓ organize, structure
Social Institutions construct...
✓✓ pathways for action
Social Institutions are...
✓✓ enduring sets of practices that structure our relationships.
Family (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create Sets of relationships that bring new members into
society and ensure that they survive, and ensure that all
dependent people are cared for
Religion (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create a sense of shared identity and meaning and purpose
to life, and encourage social integration
Economy (Social Institution)
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✓✓ Provide food, clothing, shelter, create rules to distribute
these needs
Political/Gov't (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create rules for acceptable behavior and punishment for
violating those rules. Also create a vision for "where we are
going," and select or allow leader to lead the way
Education (Social Institution)
✓✓ Train people to have skills to help provide food, clothing,
shelter, caregiving
Durkheim, 1900
✓✓ He set out to show that social forces shape our individual
actions.
He argued that factors above the individual and interactional
levels impact us.
He called these social forces, "social facts."
Social Facts
✓✓ ...manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the
individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue
of which they exercise control over him.
Functionalism
SOC100 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
for Accuracy
Our lives are shaped by...
✓✓ Social Forces.
Examples of Social Forces
✓✓ Groups, historical context, "social institutions"
Social Forces impact us differently depending on our...
✓✓ social location.
Social Location
✓✓ Characteristics of individuals we think are important.
Examples of social location...
✓✓ Gender, race, income, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, etc.
Society is a
✓✓ "social environment"
"Givens"
✓✓ taken-for-granted patterns that structure our choices--we
don't notice them.
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
Social Institutions
✓✓ Family
Economy
Religion
Education
Politics and Gov't
Social Institutions ___ and ___ society.
✓✓ organize, structure
Social Institutions construct...
✓✓ pathways for action
Social Institutions are...
✓✓ enduring sets of practices that structure our relationships.
Family (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create Sets of relationships that bring new members into
society and ensure that they survive, and ensure that all
dependent people are cared for
Religion (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create a sense of shared identity and meaning and purpose
to life, and encourage social integration
Economy (Social Institution)
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✓✓ Provide food, clothing, shelter, create rules to distribute
these needs
Political/Gov't (Social Institution)
✓✓ Create rules for acceptable behavior and punishment for
violating those rules. Also create a vision for "where we are
going," and select or allow leader to lead the way
Education (Social Institution)
✓✓ Train people to have skills to help provide food, clothing,
shelter, caregiving
Durkheim, 1900
✓✓ He set out to show that social forces shape our individual
actions.
He argued that factors above the individual and interactional
levels impact us.
He called these social forces, "social facts."
Social Facts
✓✓ ...manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the
individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue
of which they exercise control over him.
Functionalism
