Social Institutions Flashcards
1
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social institutions
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specific areas of human social life that have become broadly organized into discernible patterns and supported by agreed upon expectations or standards for goals and behaviors
2
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idealized functions of family
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multiple generations, support, communication, rules, conflict resolution, role differentiation, love, commitment, trust
3
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social structures that impact families
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Economy, educational systems, criminal justice system
4
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Primary groups
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a small number of ppl who interact in direct, personal, and intimate ways
=>have larger impacts on early socialization, values, self-control, etc…
5
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Secondary groups
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goal oriented groups characterized by impersonal, segmental, and utilitarian contacts
