social system

Examples of social system in the following topics:

• Caste Systems

  • Caste systems are closed social stratification systems in which people inherit their position and experience little mobility.
  • Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines some or all elements of endogamy, hereditary transmission of occupation, social class, social identity, hierarchy, exclusion, and power.
  • Some sociologists suggest that caste systems come in two forms: racial caste systems and non-racial caste systems.
  • Social systems identical to caste systems found elsewhere in the world have historically existed in Europe as well.
  • European societies were historically stratified according to closed, endogamous social systems with groups such as the nobility, clergy, bourgeoisie, and peasants.

• Socialism

  • Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially owned and used to meet human needs, not to create profits.
  • Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially owned and used to meet human needs instead of to create profits.
  • In a socialist economic system, the means of production would instead be used to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs.
  • Karl Marx helped to create the system of social thought now called Marxism.
  • Discuss the various implementations of socialism, from reformism to revolutionary socialism

• Social Context for Learning

  • Some social constructivists discuss two aspects of social context that largely affect the nature and extent of the learning (Gredler, 1997; Wertch, 1991):
  • Symbol systems, such as language, logic, and mathematical systems, are learned throughout the learner's life.
  • These symbol systems dictate how and what is learned.
  • The nature of the learner's social interaction with knowledgeable members of the society is important.
  • Without the social interaction with more knowledgeable others, it is impossible to acquire social meaning of important symbol systems and learn how to use them.

• The Disadvantages of Mixed Economies

  • While most modern forms of government are consistent with some form of mixed economy, given the broad range of economic systems that can be described by the term, the mixed economy is most commonly associated with social democratic parties or nations run by social democratic governments.
  • Social democratic programs intended to ameliorate capitalism, such as unemployment benefits or taxation on profits and the wealthy, create contradictions of their own through limiting the efficiency of the capitalist system by reducing incentives for capitalists to invest in production.
  • Others contrast social democracy with democratic socialism by defining the former as an attempt to strengthen the welfare state and the latter as an alternative socialist economic system to capitalism.
  • In contrast to social democracy, democratic socialists advocate a post-capitalist economic system based either on market socialism combined with workers self-management, or on some form of participatory-economic planning.
  • While a common goal of both systems is to achieve greater social and economic equality, market socialism does so by changes in enterprise ownership and management, whereas social democracy attempts to do so by government-imposed taxes and subsidies on privately owned enterprises.

• Social Control

  • The conflict theory perspective towards education focuses on the role school systems may play in implementing social control.
  • Given this assumption, the conflict perspective often focuses on the role school systems may play in influencing public opinion, or implementing social control.
  • Schools can further goals of social control by socializing students into behaving in socially acceptable ways .
  • Schools can further goals of social control by socializing students into behaving in socially acceptable ways.
  • Discuss the use of school system and media as a means of exercising social control within a given society

• Social Security Legislation

  • Some in America have derided France's social security system as socialist.
  • Prior to 1935 and the passage of the Social Security Act, social security did not exist in the United States.
  • But how does social security work?
  • Thus, it is a cross between a redistribution system and a savings account.
  • However, the structure of the social security system has put the entire program into serious financial distress.

• Democratic Socialism

  • Democratic socialism combines the political philosophy of democracy with the economic philosophy of socialism.
  • Democratic socialism combines the political philosophy of democracy with the economic philosophy of socialism.
  • On one end, democratic socialism may combine a democratic national political system with a national economy based on socialist principles.
  • On the other end, democratic socialism may refer to a system that uses democratic principles to organize workers in a firm or community (for example, in worker cooperatives).
  • Democratic socialism contrasts with political movements that resort to authoritarian means to achieve a transition to socialism.

• Social Mobility

  • Societies present different opportunities for mobility depending on their system of values.
  • This type of society has an open status system, which functions on the basis of achieved status, or status gained through one's own merit.
  • On the other hand, closed status systems are based on ascribed status.
  • In the 19th century, the U.S. had much higher social mobility than comparably developed nations like the U.K., due in part to the common school movement and open public school system, a large farming industry, and high geographic mobility.
  • Compare the various types of social mobiliy, the status systems they exist in, and their status between countries and over time.

• Understanding Social Interaction

  • In sociology, social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals or groups.
  • A social interaction is a social exchange between two or more individuals.
  • Social structures and cultures are founded upon social interactions.
  • By interacting with one another, people design rules, institutions and systems within which they seek to live.
  • Through this broad schema of social development, one sees how social interaction lies at its core.

• Theoretical Understandings of Socialization

  • Socialization, as a concept in social scientific research, has evolved over time.
  • Internalization Theory - socialization is a series of stages in which the individual learns to participate in various levels of organization of society; this theory contends that the child internalizes a cognitive frame of reference for interpersonal relations and a common system of expressive symbolism in addition to a moral conscience; this approach was advocated by Talcott Parsons
  • As a result, everyone becomes both a socializing agent (socializer) and a novice (socializee) in all encounters with others.
  • This conceptualization leaves socialization without a social home; it is all around but no place in particular.
  • Additionally, previous approaches to socialization lacked specificity about the nature of socialization activity.