Chapter 6, Social Organization, Society and Social Institutions: From the Perfect Society exercise: (25 points) 1. -Whenever someone mentions about the US, the first thing that come to that person’s mind is fast food industry. Institutions in the US require efficiency, calculability, quantification, predictability, and control. By expanding markets, they become multinational or even global corporations. -four characteristics: institutions tend to be resistant to change, to be independent, to change together, and to be the site of major social problems. -All of these characteristics are found in US institutions. 2. a. Being a leader is hard. I had to consider all manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions before making decisions. In addition, everybody has different ideas. I had to listen to them and choose which one was the best. b. I felt respected and wonderful. Sometimes, I felt stress as I had to be careful with my words. c. I do not think I may be a good leader. I did not have as many ideas as my friends. d. I needed to find the problems and solutions being used in other countries. I watched videos about improving our society. After that, I made decisions and asked friend’s opinion whether my ideas were good or not. 3. (4 points) a. It is difficult because everybody was raised in a different environment. Even if some of us were raised in the same culture, we had different ways of judging and solving problems. b. Janeth, Torn c.
A. My dad has taught me invaluable lessons that have paved the road for success.
c. These situations made me feel confident that confidential information would not be shared and only he relevant people would know. Also made me feel good to see the young people having contact with their families. The young person feels happy to be seeing their families and also
D. I have learnt that I have to be the boss of my own thoughts, rule my mind, instead of letting my mind rule me. B| IV. Third Point A. I carry with me the memories of my past. The smiles and the tears.
b. I have character and integrity that will carry me though when I face difficult moral choices.
Social institutions can be described as complex systems that comprise the structure of a society. While providing order to the society, they are also restricting as change must be maneuvered within the existing institutions. The structure of relationships caused by social institutions limits and determines the existence of individuals and peoples in their society (Social Institutions). Norms are established, though not always explicitly, through certain practices of behavior which in turn contribute to the existence of said institutions.
I really didn’t have any feelings towards my observations this week. However, I do feel that the meeting among the workers and guardian ad litem seemed stressful but I can understand why. I noticed how important it is to know each case before presenting it to
Institutions (collective means of dealing with basic social functions in government, family, mass media, and economy)
7. How do you describe your leadership style? and What advice you give for future leaders?
b. If we have been able to develop ourselves, whether the others can do as well.
There are five basic institutional areas of a society. The major institutions consist of family, education, economics, religion, and political sectors. These will essentially affect everyone's life by shaping their thoughts and behaviors. Each of these institutions serves its purpose to fulfill society's fundamental needs and specific goals for the overall society. All must coincide or work harmoniously to make a society.
For sake of discussion, I used the words most influential only in a positive and/or inspiring sense, meaning society would benefit most from these social institutions. Conversely, I could have argued that the least influential social institutions are good and/or beneficial to our society, but our society chooses to ignore them; and the most influential social institution plague our society. However, I chose the former—the positive and/or inspiring sense of the words.
(2) the basic social institutions generally satisfy and are generally known to satisfy these principles.” (Rawls 5)
Economic sphere includes four types of activities – production, distribution, exchange and consumption. It provides means for increasing the material welfare of the society: enterprises, banks, markets, money flows and the like that enables the society to use available resources (land, labour, capital and management) in order to produce the amount of goods and services sufficient enough to satisfy people’s essential needs in food, shelter and leisure. About 50% of the economically active population take part in the economic sphere as the young, old, disabled do not produce material wealth. But indirectly 100% of the population participate in the economic sphere as consumers of created goods and services.
Social institutions are usually conceived of as the basic focuses of social organization, common to all societies and dealing with some of the basic universal problems of ordering social life. Three basic aspects of institutions are emphasized. First, the patterns of behavior which are regulated by institutions (“institutionalized") deal with any perennial, basic problems of any society. Second, institutions involve the regulation of behavior of individuals in society, according to some definite, continuous, and organized patterns. Finally, these patterns involve a definite normative ordering and regulation; that is, regulation is upheld by norms and by sanctions which are legitimized by these norms.
b. Pessimistic; Being pessimistic could come in handy if you’re a CEO and want your company to be perfect. You always want your workers to work harder to become more successful.