SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Capital, Education In Canada, Numeracy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Lorne Tepperman

Document Summary

De ning institutions: social institution: system of roles (behavior patterns) and relationships that are widely shared and enduring in a society, we see the stability of institutions when the norms or rules are violated; patterns of behavior. When studying institutions, we ask: how norms and roles of one institution affect interactions. Blurring of institutional norms: military norms to family live, family norms to business, religious norms to education, cannot apply desperate norms to each other. !1: how do people adjust to rapid institutional change (and normative uncertainty) War and revolution: examples : durkheim"s discussion of suicide, merton"s discussion of adaptations to anomie, institutions allow certainty: how one is expected to behave, how others are expected to behave towards you. Anyone who does not follow these perceptions are subject to punishment. The canadian family: family is one of the oldest social institutions.