Unit 4; Social Institutions Flashcards
Social Institutions
A system of statuses, roles, values, and norms that is used to satisfy an organized society.
Homogamy
A marriage between partners from similar ethnic, racial, religious, educational, or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Extended Family
A family that extends beyond the nuclear family.
Kinship
How individuals are related to one another.
Heterogamy
Marriage between people from different sociological or educational backgrounds.
Sandwich Generation
Middle-aged individuals who are pressured to support both aging parents and growing children.
Factors of Production
Resources people use to produce goods and services.
Free Enterprise System
Economy where the market determines prices, products, and services rather than the government. Businesses and services are free of government control.
Communism
Economic system based on the collection ownership of property and the means of production and a classless society.
Protectionism
Policy of protecting domestic industries against foreign competition by means of tariffs, import quotas, or other restrictions placed on imports of foreign competitors.
Free-trade
Goods and services can be brought and sold across international borders with little or no government restrictions.
Political Institution
Organizations which create, enforce and apply laws that mediate conflict and make government policy on the economy and social systems.
Hidden Curriculum
Collection of implicit academic, social, and culture messages, unwritten rules and unspoken expectations that are acquired.
Sacred
Collective representations that are set apart from society.
Profane
Treating something sacred with indifference or disrespect.
Ex: Hitting the pope
Religiosity
Significance of religion within a society.
Secular
An indifference or rejection of religious considerations.
Family; Functions
Regulation of sexual activity, reproduction, emotional support, economic stability, and socialization.
Family; Family of Orientation
The family you choose.
Family; Family of Procreation
The family you’re born into.
Family; Monogamy
Marriage between a man and a women.
Family; Polygamy
Marriage between multiple partners.
Family; Polyandry
Marriage where a women has multiple man partners.
Family Polygyny
Man is permitted multiple female partners.
Religion; Functions
Cohesion, social control, emotional support
Education; Functions
Internalization, skills and knowledge, common indignity, social integration, occupational placement
Government; Functions
Order, protection, resolving conflict, national pride, unity
Economy
Distribution of scarce resources, production of goods and services
Religion; Social Cohesion
Encourages the strengthening of bonds among people.
Social Control
Encourages conformity to the norms of society.
