institution

Examples of institution in the following topics:

• Social Institutions

  • Institutions can be either formal or informal.
  • However, formal institutions do not have to have the force of the law at their disposal.
  • Institutions can also be abstract, such as the institution of marriage.
  • While institutions tend to appear to people in society as part of the natural, unchanging landscape of their lives, sociological studies of institutions reveal institutions a social constructs, meaning that they are created by individuals and particular historical and cultural moment.
  • The social function of the institution is the fulfillment of the assigned roles.

• Resocialization and Total Institutions

  • A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic control.
  • Within a total institution, the basic needs of a entire bloc of people are under bureaucratic control.
  • Institutions established to care for harmless or incapable people, including orphanages, poor houses and nursing homes
  • First, the staff of the institution tries to erode the residents' identities and independence.
  • Review Goffman's five types of social institutions and their functions, including their processes of resocialization

• Institutionalized Children

  • Institutionalized children may develop institutional syndrome, which refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills.
  • In clinical and abnormal psychology, institutional syndrome refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develop after a person has spent a long period living in mental hospitals, prisons, or other remote institutions.
  • The term institutionalization can be used both in regard to the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to institutional syndrome; thus a person being "institutionalized" may mean either that he/she has been placed in an institution, or that he/she is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an institution for an extended period of time.
  • Deinstitutionalization can have multiple definitions; the first focuses on reducing the population size of mental institutions.
  • This can be accomplished by releasing individuals from institutions, shortening the length of stays, and reducing both admissions and readmission.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • Because social institutions are functionally integrated to form a stable system, a change in one institution will precipitate a change in other institutions.
  • Functionalists analyze social institutions in terms of the function they play.
  • In the functionalist perspective, society and its institutions are the primary units of analysis.
  • Following functionalist logic, if a social institution exists, it must serve a function.
  • Institutions, however, change over time; some disappear and others come into being.

• The Conflict Perspective on Deviance

  • Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
  • In conflict theory, deviant behaviors are actions that do not comply with social institutions.
  • He also theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
  • Institutions of knowledge, norms, and values, are in place to categorize and control humans.
  • The French philosopher Michel Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.

• Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

  • These practices are embedded in the operating procedures, policies, laws, or objectives of large organizations, such as governments and corporations, financial institutions, public institutions and other large entities.
  • Though direct discrimination is illegal by United States law, many academics, activists, and advocacy organizations assert that indirect discrimination is still pervasive in many social institutions and daily social practices.
  • Institutionalized discrimination often exists within governments, though it can also occur in any other type of social institution, including religion, education and marriage.
  • Examine the legal cases that had an impact on institutional discrimination

• Microfinancing

  • The Grameen Bank is an example of a microfinance institution.
  • An important source of detailed data on microfinance institutions is the MicroBanking Bulletin, which is published by the Microfinance Information Exchange.
  • That being said, the annual rates charged to clients were higher, because these rates included local inflation and the bad debt expenses of the microfinance institution.
  • In his latest book, he argues that microfinance institutions should face penalties if they are found to be charging more than 15% above their long-term operating costs.
  • There is a rich variety of financial institutions which serve micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Familial ties represent the purest form of Gemeinschaft, although religious institutions are also a classic example of this type of group classification.
  • Familial ties represent the purest form of gemeinschaft, although religious institutions are also a classic example of this type of relationship.
  • Characteristics of these groups include slight specialization and division of labor, strong personal relationships, and relatively simple social institutions.
  • Characteristics of these groups include highly calculated divisions of labor, impersonal secondary relationships, and strong social institutions.

• What is Politics?

  • The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.

• Bureaucracies and Formal Groups

  • A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
  • A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials of a government or organization who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
  • A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
  • As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.