N12 soocial structure and control

1. Social Structure and
Social Control

2. Social Structure
•Is the framework of societal institutions
and social practices that make up a society
and establish limits on behaviour.

3. Social Structure According to Sociologists
• Moris Ginsberg - social structure is concerned with the principal form of
social organization, i.e. types of groups, associations and institutions and the
complex of these which constitute societies

4. Social Structure According to Sociologists
• Raymond Firth - that social structure is “concerned with the ordered
relations of parts to a whole; with the arrangement in which the elements of
social life are linked together”.

5. Social Structure According to Sociologists
• Radcliffe – Brown - defines social structure as “an arrangement of persons
in institutionally controlled and defined relationships such as the relationship
of king and subject, or that of husband and wife”.

6. Social Structure According to Sociologists
• Talcott Parsons - applies it “to the particular arrangement of the inter-related
institutions, agencies and social patterns, as well as the statuses and roles
which each person assumes in the group”.

7. Social Structure According to Sociologists
• H. M. Johnson - “The structure of anything consist of the relatively stable
interrelationship among its parts, moreover the term ‘part’ itself implies a
certain degree of stability.

8. Social Structure
CONSTRAINING
PERVASIVE ENDURING
LARGELY INVISIBLE

10. Social Control