Understanding Social Institutions
EXERCISES
1. Note the marriage rules that are followed in your society. Compare your observations with these made by other students in the class. Discuss.
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2. Find out how membership, residence pattern and the mode of interaction changes in the family with broader economic, political and cultural changes, for instance migration.
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3. Write an essay on ‘work’. Focus on both the range of occupations, which exist and how they change.
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4. Discuss the kind of rights that exist in your society. How do they affect your life?
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5. How does sociology study religion?
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6. Write an essay on school as a social institution. Draw from both your reading as well as your personal observations.
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7. Discuss how these social institutions interact with each other. You can start the discussion from yourself as a senior school student. And move on to how you are shaped by different social institutions. Are you entirely controlled or can you also resist and redefine social institutions?
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