Examples of Informal Institutions in the following topics:
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- Institutions can be either formal or informal.
- Informal institutions are those that are not designed to regulate conduct, but often end up doing so as members seek to conform to communal standards.
- Institutions can also be abstract, such as the institution of marriage.
- While institutions tend to appear to people in society as part of the natural, unchanging landscape of their lives, sociological studies of institutions reveal institutions a social constructs, meaning that they are created by individuals and particular historical and cultural moment.
- The social function of the institution is the fulfillment of the assigned roles.
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- Informal controls are varied and differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
- For example, at a women's institute meeting, a disapproving look might convey that it is inappropriate to flirt with the minister.
- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval.
- Informal controls differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
- For example, at a women's institute meeting, a disapproving look might convey that it is inappropriate to flirt with the minister.
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- Institutional discrimination involves the state apparatus.
- If homophobic discrimination is institutional, it means either that non-heterosexual sex acts are criminalized or that LGBTQ individuals are denied the same legal rights as heterosexuals.
- Informal discrimination is not necessarily sanctioned by the state, but involves social pressures against LGBTQ individuals, behaviors, and identities.
- Although non-heterosexual sex acts are legal in the United States, LGTBQ people still face institutional discrimination because they are not afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples.
- Describe the phenomenon of homophobia (both institutional and informal) and the implications it has for LGBTQ individuals in modern-day America
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- Informal control typically involves an individual internalizing certain norms and values.
- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval, which can cause an individual to conform to the social norms of the society.
- Informal social control has the potential to have a greater impact on an individual than formal control.
- Informal sanctions check 'deviant' behavior.
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- Informal economic activity is a dynamic process which includes many aspects of economic and social theory including exchange, regulation, and enforcement.
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- Informal economies are frequently less institutionalized and include all economic practices that are not included in the calculation of GNP.
- Informal economies therefore include such disparate practices as the drug trade and babysitting—anything that isn't reported to the government or factored into the nation's GNP .
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- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval.
- Informal sanctions can check deviant behavior of individuals or groups, either through internalization, or through disincentivizing the deviant behavior.
- Informal controls are varied and differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
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- Informal organization can accelerate and enhance responses to unanticipated events, foster innovation, enable people to solve problems that require collaboration across boundaries, and create paths where the formal organization may someday need to pave a way.
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- Informal economies are frequently less institutionalized and include all economic practices that are neither taxed nor monitored by a government.
- Informal economic activity is a dynamic process which includes many aspects of economic and social theory: exchange, regulation, and enforcement.