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Ch.2 Social Construction Reali
Peter Berger, Thomas Luckman
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
05/02/2009

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Institutionalization occurs when
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When there is a reciprocal typification of habitualized actions by types of actors.
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Who posits this statement?

"the actions of type X will be performed by actors of type X"

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The Institution
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Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared...
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shared history builds reciprocal typifications...not instantaneously.
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Pre-defined patternes of  human conduct function to ?
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Control human conduct
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When two human products of institutionalized typification interact with one another they assume?
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both A and B assume reciprocity of typification, and a collection of typified actions will emerge, habitualized for each in roles. This is the beg. of institutionalization(in nucleo)
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The most important gain between Individual A and B is ?
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they will be able to predict one another's behavior..."There he goes again" 

 

-relieves tension, save time and effort, life is defined by routines

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As more members join an institution(or beg..nucleo) what happens to individuals?
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When institutions have a reality of their own, individuals are now external to them, coercive fact
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As A and B share their world it becomes less pliable, give an example?
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A and B created an intitution and thus can mold it...When their children come to follow the institution, the mindset turns from "here we go again" to "this is how things are done" Children are born into the "world". 

 

Since children had no part in shaping the world, it confronts them as a given reality.

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When A and B reiterate to their children..."this is how things are done" what occurs to in their own beliefs?
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The institutional values gain strength from reiteration.
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Explain this.."the product acts back upon the producer"
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man created social world in which future men cannot escape
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Knowledge functions in a society to...
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create realizations, and provide an ongoing production of reality
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