Essentials Of A Social Institution Analysis

In Essentials of Sociology 11th edition on page 104 it defines social institutions as standard or usual ways that a society meets its basic needs – vitally affect your life. As you can see the term is very vague. Upon looking up the term online I learned that social institutions when utilized by modern sociologists it refers to compound social forms that replicate themselves such as governments, the family, human languages, universities, hospitals, businesses and legal systems. Jonathon Turner defined it as “a complex of positions, roles, norms and values lodged in particular types of social structures and organizing relatively stable patterns of human activity with respect to fundamental problems in producing life-sustaining resources, in …show more content…
Let’s begin with family. What are the basic needs of family? As a family we regulate production. This means that we can choose how many children we want or do not want to have. We socialize with others within our family or with friends and coworkers. As a family we do whatever it takes to protect our children. No this does not mean that we go out looking for trouble this simply means that we as a family do whatever is best for our children as well as teach them how to be sociable among others. No we can take a look at religion. When thinking about religion one tends to think about going to church on Wednesday and Sunday or maybe only Sunday. However religion is far from just showing up in church and praying when the preacher says to or kneeling at the alter and ask for forgiveness. Religion is about true belief. Do you truly believe in God and do you worship him in all that you do. All of us worry about what will happen when we die and what will our families do without us. Is there truly life after death? Well this all revolves around your faith. I am not one that can quote the bible word for word, but I do remember one verse real well and it read, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (King James Version, John 3.16). Growing up in a religious home I heard this verse many times and I am a true believer that when my earthly body leaves this world that my spirit will live on forever inside what we know as heaven. This is why when I hang up the phone, get ready to leave from someone’s home or they leave from mine, I never say goodbye. I always say see you later. Many friends have asked me why and I simply tell them, that it is never goodbye because I will someday seem them again, whether it be in bodily form or spiritual, I will see them later. I was told this