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Chapter 6: Social institutions Flashcards

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Institutions that affect an individual’s life intimately ie: family

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Personal Institutions

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Impersonal Institutions

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Institutions that involve the activities and behaviours of large groups ie: criminal justice system

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Example of social institutions include:

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  • churches (personal/impersonal)
  • schools (personal/impersonal)
  • government (impersonal)
  • media (impersonal)
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Characteristics of social institutions

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  • existed for a long time
  • well established patterns of functioning known as structure, change occurs slowly in social institutions
  • specific purpose
  • members are joined by shared values
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Legal system:

  • supports and enforces behaviours our society agrees should be obeyed
  • police enforce laws
  • this is an example of what
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An example of characteristics of social institutions

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Fill in the blanks:

One of the main priorities of the (blank) is to provide (blank)

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  • criminal justice system

- social structure

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The purpose of social institutions is:

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  • they shape values and beliefs
  • maintain order and security
  • help society to unction efficiently
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True or false:

The criminal justice system is Canada’s largest and most expensive institution

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True

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Briefly explain the 3 components of CJS

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  1. Law enforcement agencies: protect society, prevent crime, apprehend and arrest criminals
  2. Courts: processes people charged w/a criminal offence, it’s adversarial (lawyers, representing the defendant and compete in court against the prosecution
  3. Correctional Agencies/Insitutions: punishment of offender, once convicted by the court, rehabilitation, protect the public
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The first issue in Canadian Criminal Justice is:

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  1. The Power of Police:
    - Ratio of police to citizens 1:475
    - since police forces can be thinly spread, officers must use their judgement of when to intervene
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The second issue in Canadian Criminal Justice is:

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  1. The number of prisons:

- large operational costs of correctional agencies became an issue in Canada

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What are social institutions?

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Agents of socialization that influence shape and socialize us are part of larger entity we call society. They are “social structures” and “social institutions”.

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The third issue in Canadian Criminal Justice is:

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  1. Rehabilitation or radical reform?
    -sociologist Travis hirschi said:
    •abandon current criminal justice system
    •incarceration only strengthens criminal attitudes
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What did sociologist Travis Hirschi propose?

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  • intervene in the lives of young people
  • restrict unsupervised activities in teens
  • advocates strong 2 parent families
  • preventing teen pregnancies would reduce crime rates long term
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What sociologist was Criticized to being overly simplistic?

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Travis Hirschi

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True or false:

60% of marriages end in divorce

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False (40%)

17
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Romantic Love is based on what?

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  • physical attraction
  • shard values and goals
  • compatible personalities
18
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Sternberg’s “triangular theory of love” is composed of what 3 things?

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  1. Passion: drive that leads to romance, attraction and sex
  2. Commitment: decision that one loves someone else and commits to maintain that
  3. Intimacy: feeling of closeness, connectedness
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Ukrainians that immigrated to Alberta and Saskatchewan are known as…

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Hutterites

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Hutterite expectations are:

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  • marry in late teens/ early twenties
  • dating is restricted
  • pre-marital sex is forbidden
  • pregnancy expected within first year of marriage
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The Two types of polygamy are:

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  • polygyny: one man has more than one wife

- polyandry: one woman has more than one husband

22
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Polygamy exists for certain reasons, they are:

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  • property rights
  • access to resources
  • sharing of daily work
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Fill in the blanks:

Mixtec marriage form is (blank). They (blank) have a free choice of marriage. These marriages are for (blank) reasons.

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  • monogamous
  • do not
  • economic
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Fill in the blanks:
In India marriages are (blank). They are (blank) relationships usually chosen by parents. This is because of (blank) or to (blank).

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  • endogamy
  • arranged
  • caste lines
  • create love
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Fill in the blanks:
Tibetan marriages are usually (blank). These arrangements are usually made (blank). This reduces (blank) since there’s less (blank) to split land.

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  • fraternal polyandry
  • economically
  • family conflict
  • heirs
26
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The Monkey Love experiment was done by:

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Harry Harlow

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Briefly describe the Monkey Love experiment

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The experiment involved:

  • a monkey and two factors: a fake mother monkey and another with just food
  • wanted to see if food was more powerful than nurture
  • the fake mother monkey won over the real monkey

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