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57. FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Social institutions perform a number of functions in society. Among the most important of them are the following:
1) regulation of the activities of members of society within the framework of their roles and statuses. Any activity is regulated; it is thanks to social institutions that the appropriate regulations are developed. Each institution has a system of rules and norms that consolidate and standardize sociocultural interaction, making it both predictable and communicatively possible;
2) appropriate sociocultural control. It provides order and framework within which the life activity of any individual takes place;
3) creating opportunities for life activities of one kind or another.
In order for specific socio-cultural projects to be implemented within the community, it is necessary that the appropriate conditions be created. Social institutions are directly involved in this;
4) enculturation and socialization of individuals. Social institutions are designed to ensure the possibility of a person’s entry into society and culture, familiarization with their values, norms and rules, orders existing in society;
5) ensuring integration and sustainability of the entire sociocultural organism. This function ensures the process of interaction, interdependence and mutual responsibility of members of a particular social group, occurring under the influence of institutional requirements. Integrity, carried out through institutions, is necessary to coordinate activities inside and outside any social institution, it is one of the conditions for its survival, reproduction and development;
6) ensuring and establishing communications. The communicative capabilities of social institutions are not the same: some are specifically designed to transmit information (mass media, television, radio), others have very limited capabilities for this or are designed primarily to perform other functions;
7) conservation of culturally significant activity regulations, their preservation and reproduction. Culture and society could not develop if it were not for the opportunity to store and transmit accumulated experience and thereby ensure continuity in the development of sociocultural traditions.
Thus, social institutions, managing entire spheres of society, act as powerful multifunctional tools that allow a person to fight for existence and successfully survive. Social institutions help a person to adapt to life in society.
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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