SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND African-American
How do major social institutions contribute to the creation and preservation of race, gender and social class status arrangements?

The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of women of color for instance, the Native American, African-American, Mexican-American, and Asian-American) within the context of education, labor, or the family. Furthermore, the impact of stereotyping, the implicit bias and social racism influences the behavior aspects and patterns of discrimination with the social institutions. The society has internalized codes and cues that elevate the racism and any endeavors to control such biases remain futile. In essence, major social institutions contribute to the development and preservation of race, gender and social status (Agathangelou & Ling, 2002).

African-American women comprise a critical proportion of the learning environment; yet are extremely unrepresented and underutilized. There are various programs and initiatives designed and implemented to focus on women and other oppressed minority groups.…...

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References

Agathangelou, M. & Ling, L.M. (2002). "An Unten (Ur) able Position: The Politics of Teaching

for Women of Color in the U.S." International Feminist Journal of Politics 4(3):368 -- 98.

Antonio, L. (2002). Faculty of Color Reconsidered Reassessing Contributions to Scholarship."

The Journal of Higher Education 73(5):582 -- 602.

Social institutions refer to a complex and lasting collection of interactions and behaviours whose effect can be felt in societies. Social institutions give order and organization to the behaviour of people via their normalizing qualities and they guide the conduct of people in all major sectors of the society (Verwiebe, 2015). In this paper, we will consider; a pill container, an American flag, a cap, a cross, a gown, a house and a dollar bill, pointing out the way by which their significance is important to social institutions.
Social Institutions

Apart from the use of a house as a shelter and a place for rest, it is also a very important place where the family is developed and it is therefore an important part of the family social institution. The house is the space where family members are well accustomed to their duties and where they engage in reproduction and social interactions.…...

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Barkan, S. E. (2013). "Social Problems: Continuity and Change. Washington, DC: Saylor Foundation.

O'Neil, D. (2006, June 23). Economic Systems: An Introduction to Systems of Distribution and Exchange. Retrieved June 7, 2017, from http://anthro.palomar.edu/economy/econ_1.htm

OpenStax College. (2015). An Introduction to Sociology. Retrieved June 7, 2017, from Creative Commons:  http://philschatz.com/sociology-book/contents/m43493.html 

Verwiebe, R. (2015). Social Institutions. Retrieved June 7, 2017, from University of Vienna: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/Personen/Institutsmitglieder/Verwiebe/Social_Institutions_in_Encyclopedia_of_Quality_of_Life_Research.pdf

Social Institution
Racism in America's Legal System

Every few decades, our assumptions about the progress we've made in terms of racial sensitivity are undermined by a disturbing and racially-motivated miscarriage of justice. As with the Rodney King trial of two decades ago, the verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder trial demonstrated that our legal system remains highly reflective of the racial inequality that pervades our culture and society. Indeed, the legal system as a social institution is today, as it has always been, demonstrative of the racial hierarchy that detains the advancement of African-Americans.

This is an extremely troubling assertion given the perceived steps taken both during and since the Civil Rights Era. Here, the vast majority of those laws which were explicitly constructed to prevent equal treatment of African-Americans before the eyes of the law have been dismantled. The legal system has, by stated design, sought to achieve a greater degree of…...

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Works Cited:

Rachlinksi J.J.: Johnson, S.L.; Wistrich, A.J. & Guthrie, C. (2009). Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges? Notre Dame Law Review, 84(3).

Vega, E. & Maeda, W. (2006). "Colorblindness: Challenging the Discourse of Contemporary U.S. Racism." ETHNIC AMERICA:READINGS IN RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER.

The Role of Non-Profits as Society EvolvesTurner concludes that the interchanges and interconnections between the cores of the major social institutions have become more complex. However, he goes on to add that although these interchanges have varied historically, the more fundamental relationships among institutions have remained the same. This text seeks to analyze how the role of nonprofits, including the impact, scope, and mission, have evolved historically with the evolving interconnections and interchanges of the core institutions. It specifically focuses on the evolution of the interconnections between the cores of family and religion, and the impact of these on the missions of early learning or daycare centers.Evolution of the Cores of the Family InstitutionBefore the industrial and commercial revolutions, the family was largely patriarchal, and its role extended beyond the procreative couple to include lateral kin and grandparents. The pre-industrial family gained legitimacy from the traditions of property, community, and…...

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References

Buehler, C., & O’Brien, M. (2011). Mothers’ Part-Time Employment: Associations with

Mother and Family Well-Being. Journal of Family Psychology, 25(6), 895-906.

Children’s Development Academy Report (2017). More than 50 Years Dedicated to Reach, Teach, Love. Children’s Development Academy. Retrieved from  https://41bfpo3el3kp34prla1oz3u3-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CDA-AnnualReport.pdf 

Gerstein, D. R., Luce, R. D., & Smelser, N. J. (1988). The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Social Institution Changes and Non-ProfitsThis text compares the evolution of two key social institutions: family and education. The family is the most basic social institution of the society. Industrialization significantly changed the structure of the family. The family in the preindustrial, agrarian society was mainly extended (Buehler & OBrien, 2017). There was a functional fit between the family and the rural economy such that all family members were involved in working the land, which then meant that the larger the family, the better. Cousins, uncles, aunts, and numerous children were regarded as assets. Anyone who was fit needed to be economically-active (Buehler & OBrien, 2017). Maintaining larger extended families meant availability of essential services in education, childcare, and agriculture. The pre-industrial period was, however, characterized by a large number of rural-urban migrations as more and more people moved to the cities to gets jobs in mills and factories (Buehler &…...

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References

Buehler, C., & O’Brien, M. (2011). Mothers’ Part-Time Employment: Associations with

Mother and Family Well-Being. Journal of Family Psychology, 25(6), 895-906.

Fraser, J. (2020). Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law Implementation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Stevenson, B., & Wolfers, J. (2007). Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving

ace or Gender Disparity in Social Institutions
There are several laws, practices and customs that systematically reflect and produce race and gender inequalities both intentionally and unintentionally. This is what is referred to as institutional racism or sexism. People within some institutions come up with guidelines, rules, procedures or standards which bring about a racist or sexist effect. The paper will look at the role institutions play when it comes to social status arrangements. It will highlight on an example of gender and race disparities occurring in institutions.

There is a policy in public schools known as zero tolerance which can be defined as a policy that allows predetermined consequences or punishment for particular offenses regardless of the age of student, their disciplinary history, or circumstances.in fact the courts are in full support of zero-tolerance which is reasonable policies which are in place to improve the safety in schools. This policy has…...

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David, L.S. (2004). Zero Tolerance as Public Policy: The good, the Bad and the Ugly. The clearing house: A journal of Education strategies, issues and ideas, 78:2, 62-66.

Morris, M.W.(2010). Race, Gender and the school to prison pipeline.

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The topic of my final research project is anti-intellectualism in America. I believe that this is a problem that affects multiple social institutions, and which is unfortunately facilitated by dysfunctional social institutions too. Some of the most important social institutions in society are related to the domain of education, and anti-intellectualism is a phenomenon that is most closely related to education even though anti-intellectualism permeates other social institutions like political and economic institutions. Furthermore, the social institutions of religion and the media can be adversely related to intellectualism to the point where it can be said that in some cases, religion and the media both foment anti-intellectualism. Verwiebe (n.d.) points out that "media and religion are responsible for the transmission of contexts of meaning, value orientations and symbolic codes," (p. 3). The media is based on profit more than it is on truth, which is why it is possible…...

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References

"The Shame of a Nation." Social Problems.

Verwiebe, R. (n.d.). Social institutions. Retrieved online: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_soziologie/Personen/Institutsmitglieder/Verwiebe/Social_Institutions_in_Encyclopedia_of_Quality_of_Life_Research.pdf

Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam are a few of the "universal" or "universalizing" religions. Strayer frames the universalizing religions in terms of the spread of different cultures and ideas throughout the world. Religions are integral to social and political power and control, and thus have a transformative effect on society as well as on the individuals within that society. The nature of universalizing religion is such that they can be all-pervasive, permeating almost every dimension of life including political, economic, and social institutions. However, universalizing religions are distinct in that they actively seek new followers; they believe their message is indeed universal and contains universal truths embedded within it.
Although universalizing religions use different methods of spreading their faiths, they share in common the desire to influence human thought and even public discourse. Of the universalizing religions, Christianity and Islam have historically revealed the most aggressive evangelical tendencies but Hinduism and Buddhism…...

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Kong, Lily. Christian evangelizing across national boundaries. Religion and Place, 2012, pp. 21-38.

Premawardhana, S. Religious Conversion. John Wiley, 2015.

"Religions of the World." Retrieved online:  http://lindblomeagles.org/ourpages/auto/2015/2/18/44701116/L6_ReligionsReading.pdf 

Strayer, R.W. Ways of the World. [Kindle Edition]. 2012.

Social institutions are the most fundamental building blocks of societies. They are the structural foundations of human social life. Social institutions "order and structure the behavior of individuals in core areas of society," (Verwiebe, n.d., p. 1). Kinship, religion, and politics are all examples of the social institutions that hold sway over the lives of individuals. However, underneath the strongest of social institutions are the values and norms of that society. This is why different cultures may have similar social institutions (such as religion, politics, and family) but those institutions appear vastly different. Moreover, the role each institution plays in a society may vary. For example, religion plays a central role in some societies but not in others. Social institutions change over time, and often dramatically. Patriarchy, for example, is a social institution common to many cultures but is being increasingly challenged from within those very same societies. Likewise, the…...

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References

Miller, S. (2011). Social institutions. SEP. Retrieved online:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-institutions/ 

Verwiebe, R. (n.d.). Social institutions. Retrieved online: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_soziologie/Personen/Institutsmitglieder/Verwiebe/Social_Institutions_in_Encyclopedia_of_Quality_of_Life_Research.pdf

According to Freud, human societies require people to give up many of their most natural instincts and to replace their natural desires with the need to satisfy the "false standards of measurement" such as the "power, success and wealth [that they seek] for themselves and admire & #8230; in others, and that [as a result,] they underestimate what is of true value in life." Fred suggested that the need to live up to the standards and expectations set by society causes "too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks" and that "to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures." By that, Freud meant that all of the psychological mechanisms, substitutions, and escapes that cause psychological problems and that often prevent human happiness. These ideas introduced by Freud about the psychological price paid by people living in society would later be part of the views of several other 20th century sociological…...

Additionally, Sociocultural theory assumes that individuals develop self-concepts through interaction with others, and we are influenced by culture and social processes, such as social norms. Social norms dictate that girls are more sensitive and boys are less emotional, thus further explaining the gender differences in the above case study.
The two predictions of how these interactions affect a child's development are: 1) if the child is treated with more love, intimacy, and talked to about feelings, the child will grow up being more sensitive to others and more open to discuss their feelings with others. If the child is taught not to respond to their feelings, or let their emotions guide them, the child will grow up to be less sensitive, more aggressive and less likely to discuss their feelings. Depending on treatment, a child may grow up to have negative qualities, such as violence or repressed anger.

These interactions can…...

" (Adams et al.)
hat the report went on to show was how a decades long deception was practiced on a race that was viewed primarily as a guinea pig for medical science.

The Tuskegee Institute had been established by Booker T. ashington. Claude McKay had passed through there in 1912 to study agriculture (under the patronage of alter Jekyll, a man who provided the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale character). Around the same time that Eleanor Dwight Jones was striving to preserve the white race, the United States Public Health Service began the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. hat took place was a forty year analysis of the life of syphilis. The two hundred black men who had syphilis were "deliberately denied treatment" (Adams et al.) in what was just one more step in oppression and callous social engineering.

And at the same time the Tuskegee experiment was going on, .E.B.…...

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Adams, Myrtle, et al. "Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee."

1996. Web. 8 June 2011.

Cone, James. Risks of Faith. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1999. Print.

Dowlings, Keven, and Knightley, Philip. "The Spy Who Came Back from the Grave."

Teachers will continue to lead the educational process, but they need to be very sensitive about the issues facing the society as a whole and the children as individuals in this society. Then, education becomes a means of identifying the issues in the life of the students and gaining knowledge and understanding about them. Education in this global society also has to acknowledge that cultural diversity is valued and preserved (Tozer, Violas, & Senese, 2002, p. 190). Teachers have to ensure that their students are taught in ways that respond to cultural groups without bias (Tozer, Violas, & Senese, 2002, p. 420). In education, there is a responsibility for students to gain a respect for other races, religions and gender that are different from their own. This is the only way that a diverse society can successfully survive.
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Best, S. And Douglas, K. (1991) Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, New York, the Guilford Press.

Byrne, a. (1998). Interpretivism. In Roberto Casati (ed.), European Review of Philosophy. Stanford: CSLI Publications

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Giroux, H. (1997) 'Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, post-modernism, and Feminism' in a.H. Halsey, H. Lauder, P. Brown and a.S. Wells (eds.) Education: Culture, Economy, and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

...liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,,: (Luke 4: 18)
Summary & Conclusion

The teaching of the Catholic Church in relation to social rights and responsibilities is quite clear however, it has been noted to be critical by the U.S. ishops that the church teaches these social principles more clearly and more persistently to the church in advancing the Kingdom of God and in fulfillment of the Great Commission.

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Cf. John Paul II,…...

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Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis, 11: AAS 71 (1979), 276: "The Fathers of the Church rightly saw in the various religions as it were so many reflections of the one truth, 'seeds of the Word', attesting that, though the routes taken may be different, there is but a single goal to which is directed the deepest aspiration of the human spirit" Cited in: Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2004)) Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church- to Hi Holiness Pope John Paul II Master of Social Doctrine and Evangelical Witness to Justice and Peace. 2004. Libreria Editrice Vaticana

Therefore, the person who chooses to suspend his interests to comply with those artificial externally-imposed social values for the benefit of others will ultimately always suffer disadvantage because others cannot be counted upon to do so consistently and in a meaningful way, at least not beyond the ability of the state to control and ensure.
To Freud, modern civilization provides various tangible benefits to the individual but only at a tremendous cost. While living in society and with the benefits of government protection against the uncontrolled expression of the selfish will of others is a benefit, the fact that our goals and values, and the component elements of our psychological personas are determined and shaped to such a great extent by external society generates much if not all of the psychological pain and trauma experienced by individuals.

Personal Response and Conclusion

There is substantial value as well as inherent weaknesses in both…...

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