Institutions and Communities

Logistics

News Items—Positioning and the rebuilding of New Orleans

Midterm--Wednesday, Oct 5, bring 20 cents for Blue Book
Wednesday, Oct 12—Form Research Teams for Community Development Project

What type of institution is.......

Focus on the Family	University of Colorado

 

• Analytic and Normative Perspectives

  From what it is.....to what it should be

  Recognizing and resisting the rush to judgement...

  Drawing lines on cultural relativism

  Stanford Prison Experiment

  Abu Ghriab

   

4. Internal dimensions of institutionalizing

• What are the social practices that hold a community together over time and space?
  framing, social interactions, power relations

Impact of growing up religious--are other institutions comparable in terms of their effect on community?

Civic or secular religions?

5. Broader institutional contexts for communities

Economic, Political, Social, Legal, Military, Cultural

Racism as an institution--Systems of advantage based on racialized distinctions--opposing white supremacy is not the same as opposing white peope.

 

 

Savage Inequalities--East St. Louis vs. Rye, NY

How is racial inclusion institutionalized? .......in the military, for example

Transformation of Economic Institutions
How does the 24-hour economy affect the conditions for community (not just individuals)?

 

 

Midterm Study terms from class notes sociological imagination working definition of community definition of institution community dynamics framework community typology framework internal vs. external dimension of positioning internal vs. external dimension of framing normative vs. analytic perspectives