Conflicts and Social Intearcationist Theories

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The perception of Conflicts and Social interaction theories as it relate to Jamaica society. Introduction Every society, large or small, has a culture and a social structure. Culture refers to the shared knowledge, beliefs, values, and rules about behaviour that exist within a society. Social structure refers to the organization of society: its social position the ongoing relationships among theses social positions; the different resources allocated to these social position; and the social group that make up the society (Smelser, 1998). For the survival of a society, there are basic social requirement for its members this is achieve through the various social institutions such as economy, family and education to name few. Within the Jamaican society, these social institutions create a pattern and school of thoughts that help to define our culture and social structure. With the uses of social scientist theories we will be examining the Jamaica society. Specifically, we will be looking at the Conflicts and Social Interaction perspective on some of the social institutions and basically our Jamaican culture and social structure. In order to continue our discussion we need to look at the social scientist definition of some of the social institutions we will be examining in this essay. The economy is the social institution that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The family is a social institution that unites individuals into cooperative group that oversee the bearing and growing of children. These social units are, in turn, built on kinship, a social bond, based on blood, marriage, or adoption, that joins individuals into a family. Education is the social institution guiding a society’s transmission of knowledge including basic facts, job skills, culture norms and values to its members. Conflict perspective Jamaican
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