Assignment:
Choose a social institution (i.e. family, education, religion, prison, economy, and mass media) and explain it using the three major sociological perspectives.
You have picked prison for a social institution and need to explain it using these three perspectives: conflict theory, functionalism, and interactionism.
1. What are social institutions (define and discuss its components).
2. Conflict theory
3. Functionalism
4. Symbolic Interactionism.