DISS Lesson 6

• Institutionalism

  • This is an approach that emphasizes the role of institutions.
• Formal - legislature, bureaucracy, political parties, mass-media
• Informal - a network of interacting organizations or a set of shared norms
• Institutionalism provides no place for individuals and their interests.
• Institutions must in some way (formal/informal) constrain the behavior of its members.
• Family - The role of this institutions is to procreates (have children), nurture, and teach values.
• Religion - This institution answers the unanswerable, establish morality, deal with death and the afterlife.
• Economy -This institution is concerned with the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services;

  supply & demand.
• Government - This institution is entrusted with making and enforcing the rules of a society as well as with regulating relations with other societies. (political order)
• Education - It is a place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, primary-elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities.