SOC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: European Debt Crisis, North American Free Trade Agreement, Edge City
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Social institutions; mechanisms of social reproduction: common ways of patterning social relationships in a given society, often have a particular purpose, governed by various rules, roles, rituals, cultural practices, and normative expectation that operate within that social setting. Social structures; patterned social arrangements and relationships that are produced by- but also constrain or shape- individual actions and experiences. Social reproduction; processes that perpetuate or sustain a given social structure. Social institutions play a key role in this. Social change; processes that transform a given social structure. Gradual is like a slanted line, dramatic is like stairs (stable reproduction, then rapid change, repeat) Love was used more for neighbors, kin, and god, than for spouses. (coontz video) The marriage paradox; the very things that have made marriage as a love relationship more rewarding have made marriage as an institution less stable . This seems unbearable compared to old ideas of marriage (coontz video)
