LOCAL & GLOBAL- Structuration (agency, institution)

Question 1

What is a total institution?

Answer 1

framework for understanding how institutional settings profoundly impact identity/behaviour

Question 2

What are the societal structures vs human agency in total institutions?

Answer 2

Dynamics of control vs resistance in these environments

Question 3

What are reinventive institutions?

Answer 3

shift in how individual’s engage with institutional settings (TI’s impose control while RI’s focus on voluntary participation)

Question 4

What challenges to reinventive institutions present?

Answer 4

Demands high levels of commitment often resulting in people conforming to standardized identities and subtle pressures to conform to norms.

Question 5

What are some sociological approaches to health?

Answer 5

focus on reaction to illness (stigma), examine inequality stemming from social hierarchy, male dominated medical field, power shaping narrative of health

Question 6

What is the biomedical approach to health?

Answer 6

view body as machine, seeking CAUSE, separating mental and physical, solely bio factors

Question 7

What is the alternative perspective to biomedical approach to health?

Answer 7

CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine), and Indigenous models (Te Whare Tapa Wha)

Question 8

Functionalist perspective to family?

Answer 8

Nuclear family (traditional/heteronormative) essential for societal stability- gender roles.

Question 9

Marxist perspective to family?

Answer 9

Considers family role in producing workers (socialisation) perpetuates domestic labour

Question 10

Feminist perspective to family?

Answer 10

family structures reinforce male power

Question 11

What stigma occurs within work?

Answer 11

Unemployment- people feel shame like stay at home parents, they are undervalued. Advocacy for Wages for housework.

Question 12

What is emotional labour?

Answer 12

Some professions require workers to manage emotions as part of job (flight attendants, smile/friendly). Unspoken social norm.

Question 13

How does Nara Smith contradict traditional female housework

Answer 13

Because she is financially compensated for the same 1950’s ideal stay at home mother/wife, who did not get money for this role

Question 14

What is the future of work looking like?

Answer 14

Rise in precarious work, neoliberal policies, part time/casual work and shift in automated + flexible job market