After reading the
Chapter 5: Social Structure and Social Interaction (pp. 104–125), please answer the following questions:
What is social structure?
How have various social institutions affected your life? What do you think affects people’s lives the most: the “social structure” or our own “interaction”?
Why is it often difficult for us to comprehend the impact of social structures on our lives? What makes social structure “invisible”?
What would happen to society if there were no more social structures?