Social Institution Flashcards
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Is an interrelated system of social roles and social norms, organized around the satisfaction of an important social need or social function.
Social Institution
Are organized patterns of beliefs and behavior that are centered on basic needs.
Social Institution
Five Primary Types of Social Institution
Family
Education
Religion
Economy
Government
Are the rules, laws, norms, and traditions that structure our behavior.
Institution
Four Major Characteristics of Institutions
- They reduce uncertainty.
- They eliminate the notion of “pure random exchange.”
- They eliminate purely self-interested behavior.
- They are both formal and informal
Emergence of Social Institution
- Spontaneous Emergence
- Exchange Coordinated by Market
- Social Selection
The unintended consequences or product of ongoing process of social interactions. (David Hume)
Spontaneous Emergence
Logic of the invisible hand through individual exchange in the market. (Adam Smith)
Exchange Coordinated by Market.
A criteria of fitness met by rule or tradition, e. g. system that led to a division of labor in the household or the firm. ( Herbert Spencer)
Social Selection
Is a hierarchical framework that determines communication, workplace reporting procedure and responsibilities.
Organizational Structure
Three Important Elements of Organizational Structure
Governance
Rules of Operation
Distribution of work
Is a framework, that use more than one reporting structure at the workplace.
Hybrid Organizational Structure
Examples of Hybrid Form of Organization
Public Service Organization
Public Sector Organization
Micro Finance Organization
Hybrid Corporation
Four Major Organizational Elements of Hybrid Institution.
Core Structure or Backbone
Functional Units
Agile Units
Shared Services
It secures the strategy, governance and synergies across the corporation.
Core Structure or Backbone
They assure the operational excellence, protection and further development of company’s key capabilities skills and corporation.
Functional Units
They operate closely with the customer a d market. They execute the operational business, especially in volatile environment.
Agile Units
They represent the interface between the agile and functional units.
Shared Services
Is a large institution that have braches or connections in other countries.
Hybrid Institution
Three Level of Institution
Universal Level
Personal Level
Social or Community Level
A system of rules applying early to each other, i. e., political processes implied in the”rule of law”, often within the function of the state. The notion of “affective neutrality.
Universal Level
Where principal system of rules governing interaction are self-interest and voluntary exchange.
Personal Level
Where relations or interactions are governed by social relationship or wider kinship, ethnic or religious ties the notion of reciprocity and altruistic relationship.
Social and Community Level
Types of Family based on Authority
Patriarchal Family
Matriarchal Family
Egalitarian Family
Matricentric Family