SOCI 415 Lecture 1: Marriage as Institution Lecture
Document Summary
Consist of mental representation that covers a number of items with similar or the same features. Institutions are organizations of social roles which "imprint their stamps upon the individual, modifying his external conduct as well as his inner life" How we see things are also changed by social institutions. Social institutions range from political and economic systems to religion and language. Of the family provides social control of reproduction and child rearing. Provides family members with guidelines for proper behaviour in everyday family life, and these guidelines contribute to the unity and stability of families. Remarriage is higher divorce rate, guidelines are more ambiguous, so don"t know how to behave in those families and creates barriers. Most family behaviour today is habitualized action which is accepted as typical by all members- institutionalized behaviour. So, institutional support for family unity exists through the routinization of everyday behaviour even though the husband is no longer the unchallenged agent of social control.
