SOCIOLOGY

Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist views of Social Institutions

Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist views of Social Institutions

Introduction

Social institutions can be best described as standardized patterns of a rule governed behavior. It is basically a social group under which a person grows up in. For instance, schools can be considered as a social institution because it helps shape the students who are studying in that particular school. The fundamental of these social institutions is laid by the mode of production which the society follows and furthermore it acts as a determinant of ensuring and maintaining the prevailing power of the dominant class in the ...