Sociology for Nurses, 3rd Edition by Pearson

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Social Organization and Disorganization

 

Learning Objectives

• Social organization – meaning, elements and types
• Voluntary associations
• Social system – definition, types, role and status as structural element of social system.
• Interrelationship of institutions
• Social control – meaning, aims and process of social control
• Social norms, moral and values
• Social disorganization – definition, causes, Control and planning
• Major social problems – poverty, housing, food supplies, illiteracy, prostitution, dowry, Child labour, child abuse, delinquency, crime, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19
• Vulnerable group – elderly, handicapped, minority and other marginal group.
• Fundamental rights of individual, women and children
• Role of nurse in reducing ...