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I. Vocabulary Building Choose The Answer A, B, or C With The Closest Meaning To The Underlined Words

1. The document discusses social institutions and their impact on society from different sociological perspectives. It provides vocabulary questions and comprehension questions about social structure and interaction. 2. Functionalists believe that social institutions serve important functions in meeting societies' basic needs such as socializing members, producing goods and services, and providing social order and solidarity. Conflict theorists view social institutions as being controlled by powerful groups to maintain their own wealth and status. 3. The document asks critical thinking questions about how hypothetical scenarios involving changes to institutions like education, law, family structure, healthcare, parks, and currency would impact readers' everyday lives.

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I. Vocabulary Building Choose The Answer A, B, or C With The Closest Meaning To The Underlined Words

1. The document discusses social institutions and their impact on society from different sociological perspectives. It provides vocabulary questions and comprehension questions about social structure and interaction. 2. Functionalists believe that social institutions serve important functions in meeting societies' basic needs such as socializing members, producing goods and services, and providing social order and solidarity. Conflict theorists view social institutions as being controlled by powerful groups to maintain their own wealth and status. 3. The document asks critical thinking questions about how hypothetical scenarios involving changes to institutions like education, law, family structure, healthcare, parks, and currency would impact readers' everyday lives.

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RUPP/IFL/English Dept.

GS202/2019-2020

PART TWO
THEME: SOCIETY
(Social Structure and Social Interaction - Continued)

I. Vocabulary Building
Choose the answer A, B, or C with the closest meaning to the underlined words.

1. To understand social institutions is to realize how profoundly social structure affects your life.
A. painfully B. deeply C. extremely

2. These new laws will have far-reaching benefits for all working mothers.
A. widespread B. limited C. insignificant

3. When the time came to approve the proposal, there were one or two voices of dissent.
A. acceptance B. consent C. disagreement

4. The live coverage of the president’s inauguration has gathered so much attention.
A. Formal admission of someone to office
B. launching of a new business venture
C. initiation and formation of new policy

5. In order to defend themselves against external conquest, societies develop means of defense, some
form of military.
A. war B. subjugation C. acquisition

6. To convince people to sacrifice personal gains, societies instill a sense of purpose.


A. administer B. demonstrate C. infuse

7. Harmonious relations between the country’s ethnic groups is not easy to achieve.
A. hostile B. tuneful C. peaceful

8. Although she is shy, it certainly hasn’t impeded her career as a model.


A. delayed B. broken C. facilitated

9. The situation raises important questions about solidarity among member states of the UN.
A. unity B. balance C. responsibility

10. Such a division of labor disperses people into different interest group where they develop different
ideas about life.
A. dissolve B. vanish C. separate

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C A C C C C B A A C
RUPP/IFL/English Dept. GS202/2019-2020

II. Comprehension Questions

1. What is the sociological significance of Social Institutions? Choose one social


institution to explain its impact on your way of life.
Social Institution are a crucial element inside the shape of human societies.
They provide a structure for behavior in a selected a part of social lifestyles. The ten
primary social establishments in massive societies are circle of family, religion, education,
economy, medicine, politics, laws, science, military, and mass media. Even
as each institution does address a unique issue of life, they're interrelated and
intersect frequently within the route of day by day lifestyles. Social institution are so significant
that if they were different, our orientations to the social world, even to life itself, would be
different. Let’s consider just the mass media. It’s far beyond serving simply as sources of
information, the mass media influence our attitudes toward social issues, the ways that we view
other people, and even our self-concept. Because the media significantly shape public opinion,
all governments attempt to influences them. Totalitarian government try to control them.
2. What does Functionalists believe is the significance of social institution? Explain with
Example.
It believes on five functional requisites that each society must meet if it is survive such as
Replacing members, socializing new members, producing and distributing goods and services,
preserving order, and providing a sense of purpose.
Example: Repairing members. Obliviously, if a society does not replace its members, it cannot
continue to exist. With reproduction fundamental to a society’s existence, and the need to
protect infants and children universal, all groups have developed some version of the family.
The family gives the newcomer to society a sense of belonging by providing a lineage, an
account of how he or she is related to others. The family also functions to control people’s sex
drive and to maintain orderly reproduction.

3. What do those believe in conflict perspective think of social institution? Explain with
example.
Although conflict theorists agree that social institutions were designed originally to meet basic
survival needs, they do not view social institutions as working harmoniously for the common
good. On the contrary, conflict theorist’s stress that powerful groups control our society’s in
situations, manipulating them in order to maintain their own privileged position of wealth and
power.
Example: Conflict theorists point out that a fairly small group of people has garnered the lion’s
share of our nation’s wealth. Members of this elite group sit on the boards of our major
corporations and our most prestigious universities. They make strategic campaign contributions
to influence (or control) our lawmakers, and it is they who are behind the nation’s major
decisions: to go to war or to refrain from war; to increase or to decrease taxes; to raise or to
lower interest rates; and to pass laws that favor or implode moving capital, technology, and jobs
out of the country.
RUPP/IFL/English Dept. GS202/2019-2020

4. What holds society together? Explain each theory with example.


According to theorist Emile Durkheim, society with all its complex social organization and
culture, is held together, depending on overall type, by mechanical solidarity (based on
individual similarity) and organic solidarity (based on a division of labor among dissimilar
individuals). Two other forms of social organization also contribute to the cohesion of a society:
gemeinschaft (“community,” characterized by cohesion based on friendships and loyalties) and
gesellschaft (“society,” characterized by cohesion based on complexity and differentiation).
Example: As societies get larger, they develop different kind of work, a specialized division of
labor. Some people mine gold, other sell it, while still other turn it into jewelry. Such a division
of labor disperses people into different interest groups where they develop different idea about
life. No longer do they depend on one other to have similar idea and behaviors. Rather, they
depend on one another for the specific work that each person contributes to the whole group.
III. Critical Thinking Questions

Brainstorm and write down at least 3 points to elaborate how would the
scenario below affects your way of life.
1. Your university announces that all exams and quizzes are not used as forms of
assessment anymore.
2. Law of all kinds are invalidated.
3. Parents must let the child live independently when he/she is 18 years old.
4. Healthcare is going to be free for all citizen over 65 years old. But the hospitals must
charge twice higher for those who are 18-64 years old.
5. All parks in Phnom Penh are going to be abolished.
6. Both Riels and Dollars hold no value from tomorrow onwards.

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