Institution Archives - Sociology Learners https://www.sociologylearners.com/tag/institution/ Knowledge Bank of Sociology Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:31:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 129612039 Religious Institution https://www.sociologylearners.com/religious-institution/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:31:38 +0000 https://www.sociologylearners.com/?p=577 Religion plays an important role in the society. It is the system of beliefs which provide the moral guideline to individuals with in a society. It is the practice of sacred things and participation of believers in the rituals. Moral values of individuals within a society are derived from the religion. Sociology do not discuss […]

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Religion plays an important role in the society. It is the system of beliefs which provide the moral guideline to individuals with in a society. It is the practice of sacred things and participation of believers in the rituals. Moral values of individuals within a society are derived from the religion. Sociology do not discuss the reliability or validity of religion. Sociologists are not interested in the questions like, does God exist?  Which religion is true? Why one religion is different from another? Sociologist are interested in the role of religion which it plays in a society as an institution. Sociologist are interested in the impacts of religion on social structure and individuals. Or how other social factors affect the religion.

Religion is universal because it answers which cannot be answered through personal experience which is beyond the grasp of human being to answer. It answers the questions like what is the meaning of life. Why are we born in this world? What is our purpose of being? How this world is created? Who created this world? How sun rise in the morning and sets down in the night? What will happen after death? So these are some question which are beyond the intellect of human beings to answer. However, religion answer these question through the scriptures. People believe that religious scriptures are written by God. And it provides all the answers of the questions which cannot be answered by a normal human being.

Individuals within a given society cannot cope with natural disasters and event which are beyond their control. Like death of a child or parent or sibling. Moreover, natural disaster like, floods, tornados, hurricane, plague and drought. Religion provide a way to cope with such disasters and calamities. There are prayers and ritual mentioned in the religious scripture to cope with such problems. Those ritual and prayers are used by the individuals to remedy such problem.

Religion keep people calm in the times of crises. It bind the together through rituals and prayers and keep them organized. Religion is an important factor in creating social solidarity amongst individual within a given society. Solidarity is important for every nation and state for their survival. Solidarity helps to fight against the foreign aggression. Our social values are derived from our beliefs. Which teach us the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad. On the basis of these values social norms are established. Which guides an individual behavior with in a society. Moreover, due to all above mentioned traits and purposes of religion we can conclude that, religion controls the behavior of an individual within a society. Individuals avoid deviant behaviors and act within a boundary of social norms. Therefore, Religion plays an important role in the sustenance and maintenance of society. It maintain social order and peace in a society.

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Political Institution https://www.sociologylearners.com/political-institution/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:10:45 +0000 https://www.sociologylearners.com/?p=421 Political institution is the organization which is responsible for formulation and execution of law. It also work as mediator to resolve conflict and formulate economic and social system policies. It is responsible for representing the general population. Political institution have impact on economy, education, culture and society. Political parties, trade unions, legislature and judiciary are […]

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Political institution is the organization which is responsible for formulation and execution of law. It also work as mediator to resolve conflict and formulate economic and social system policies. It is responsible for representing the general population. Political institution have impact on economy, education, culture and society. Political parties, trade unions, legislature and judiciary are the examples of political institutions. Political institution may also refer to the state norms under which the above mentioned organizations operate. Political institution also influences the economy and businesses. Unstable political environment have negative impact on economy, whereas, stable political environment bring peace and prosperity in the country.

Political institution include both politics and government. There are many political systems in the world however, the most eminent and applied systems are as follow, democracy, republic, communism, socialism, dictatorship and monarchy.

Democracy

In democracy people have the power to elect their representative and the head of state.

Republic

Republic is the political system which is close to democracy. In this system people choose their representatives and the representatives choose the head of state.

Monarchy

This is the type of political system in which one person rule over the country. That person is king or queen and he or she is not elected by the people but inherited the positing from his/her predecessor. 

Communism

Communism is the system in which the head of state take ever decision but the resources of the country is equally distributed among the people and people cannot own private property everything belongs to the whole community, It’s a classless and moneyless system.

Dictatorship

It is an authoritarian system where a single individual rule the country without the approval of people.

Socialism

Socialism is the system in which the focus is on the benefit of whole society. The people have common ownership of the production based on the people needs and economic demand.  

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Economic Institution https://www.sociologylearners.com/economic-institution/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:07:06 +0000 https://www.sociologylearners.com/?p=415 Economic institution involves the consumption, production and distribution of commodities and services. Production is taken in to consideration because it is important to know how much goods should be produced, whether it is profitable to invest in weapons or cars or growing food. And whether to build a big manufacturing plant or medium or small […]

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Economic institution involves the consumption, production and distribution of commodities and services. Production is taken in to consideration because it is important to know how much goods should be produced, whether it is profitable to invest in weapons or cars or growing food. And whether to build a big manufacturing plant or medium or small enterprise. Distribution focuses on the issues such as how money should be divided among managerial level employees, labors and owner of the enterprise. The distribution aspect have impact on the family social status and education. Consumption include the issues like the demand and supply of goods and services. In modern world there are two eminent economic systems capitalism and socialism.

Economic Institution of Capitalism

In capitalist system people can own private property and most of the capital is owned by the people or private property. People can buy and sell property for their personal gain. Each individual in capitalist society works for maximizing profit. The success and failure is solely based on free market competition. USA is the best example of capitalist society.

Economic Institution of Socialism

Socialism is the economic system in which the property and means of production is owned by people collectively or society and it is regulated and managed by the government.  The means of production are used for the collective good of people. Theoretically socialism have more benefit than capitalism the means of production are owned by society and used for the good and betterment of the people of society. however in capitalist society rich get richer and poor get poorer, because rich people owns the means of production and use them for their personal gain, all the efforts are put together by workers for production and the owner skims all the profits and workers are left with minimum wedge. In which workers can hardly afford their living.   

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