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Institutions

Collection of roles and relationships to form a social function. People and roles may change; institution barely does.

Institutions reproduce themselves & transmits inequalities throughout generations. Through material and symbolic resources

Funtionalists - Unintended & dysfunctional consequence


Conflict - Deliberate function

Annette Lareau

Social location shapes family structures, 2 models of child raising


Familial socialization produces other social structures

Concerted cultivation

1. Parentactivity helps develop the child’s talents, opinions, skills, etc


2. Multiplestructured leisure activities organized by adults


3. Communicationthrough reasoning and negotiation


4. Parentsintervene at school on behalf of the child, train the child to do the same


5. Childfeels entitled

Accomplishment of natural growth

1. Parentcares for child & allows them to grow2. Unsupervised‘hanging out’ with kin


3. Communicationthrough directives, not much questioning


4. Conflictbetween parents & school, feelings of frustration & dependence


5. Childfeels constrained

Education

Socialize children, knowledge, unwritten knowledge, basic socialization

Division of Labor

where tasks are specialized

The Second Shift

Women work at homes in addition to their paid job

Scientific management

Organizing work with the least amount of wastetime, energy, & resources through standardized training, detailedsupervision, & strict managerial control.

Alienation according to Marx

creativity makes us human, standardizing our work is dehumanizing. We work for material gain and not personal satisfaction

De-industrialization

created more work in different fields. Finance, technology,

Wage stagnation

Productivity has increased, wages have not

Horschild : The Time Blind

Rapid changes in family & work has created role strain

Individualistic Explanations

Errors are blamed on the individual rather than a systematic error. We live in a meritocratic society in the U.S

Cultural Explanations

Culture of Poverty - Poverty families adopt cultural activities that differ from mainstream activities prohibiting any upward mobility

Home - Ownership

Denying blacks to buy homes in certain places, receive home loans, & low bank loans with unfavorable terms


(Official segregation; redlining; subprime mortgages)

Fundamental Attribution Error

Over-estimating the effect of individual error under-estimates effect of situational factors

Institutionalized Racism

Systematic social patterns embedded in policies oppress groups of certain ethnicities

Privilege

Social locations grant unearned advantages

Usury

Excessive charges of interests rates

Pay-Day loans

Short term loans paid with the borrowers next pay check

Capilitatism

Economy is based on market competition & private owner-ships


Creates ownership; rewarded for good work

Marxism

Economy is based on owners exploiting workers



Embeddedness

Economic exchange is embedded into social relationships and institutions



Blocked Exchanges

Items that should not be exchanged.


Moral, cultural, religious violations.

Market Society

Separates economy from social regulation. Everything can be commodified

Commodification

Transforming anything to something that could be sold on the market

Citizenship

Grants Civil, Political, & Social rights

Globalization

Increasing connections. Social, cultural, political, & economical between all societies on Earth

The development Project

Increase economic growth by using western countries as a model (Bretton Woods Institution)

The Green Revolution

Transfers scientific advantages to advance southern conditions. Solves hunger & famine in post-colonial countries

Food sovereignity

Ability for each country to determine its food production and consumption

Assimilation

Settler's replace their behaviors with that of their new society. Migrant's identities change, the new society also changes.

Remittances

Migrants transfer money back to a institution (individual/organization) of their country of origin.

The Nanny Chain

Global system where women from poor nations work as a nanny for women of privileged backgrounds.