Soc 262 Wk 4 Discussion Social Institutions And Societal Needs

Submit a total of 3 substantive posts over at least 2 separate days for full participation credit. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or myself. This is a minimum amount, if you want to submit more please feel free! The posts required are: 175-word Response Due by Thursday night Before responding to this week’s discussion, take time to watch these short videos from the University Library. They show the variety of social institutions each of us encounters daily. You will need to refer to the videos in your responses: • "Social institutions: politics and education: Part 2" • "Social institutions: politics and education: Part 4" Consider the social institutions discussed in the videos you watched, and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: • Which social institutions mentioned in the videos address the needs of society at a micro-level? Share your thoughts about which needs are fulfilled by those institutions. • Which sociological theory do you think is best suited to examine micro-level social interactions? Explain why. • Which institutions function at a macro-level within society? What needs do those institutions address? • Which sociological theory works best to study macro-level social interactions? Explain why.