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Understanding social institutions

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?

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

Write an essay on school as a social institution. Draw from both your
reading as well as your personal observations.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

How does sociology study religion?

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

Discuss the kind of rights that exist in your society. How do they affect
your life?

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

Write an essay on ‘work’. Focus on both the range of occupations, which
exist and how they change.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

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.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Understanding social institutions

Note the marriage rules that are followed in your society. Compare your
observations with these made by other students in the class. Discuss.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Terms, concepts and their use in sociology

Identify the different roles and status that you play and are located in.
Do you think roles and status change? Discuss when and how they
change.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Terms, concepts and their use in sociology

What is social control? Do you think the modes of social control in different
spheres of society are different? Discuss.

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)

Terms, concepts and their use in sociology

What have you observed about the stratification system existing in your
society? How are individual lives affected by stratification?

31/10/2024

Sociology and Psychology

11th (Arts/Humanities)