. Other than the informal ties of peo-ple who have a relationship to the grand narrative of a particular college, a number of social structures exist that make colleges, which are themselves made up of a series of stories within social networks, possible
There are multiple institutions that make up or reinforce college.
So do her friends and yours. Anyone who knows her contributes to her social identity. The sum total of stories about your mom is the grand narrative of who she is.
Kind of reminds me of the heart aspect in Homestuck where each individual splinter of a character is considered a vector or crude imitation of the whole piece.
So like each Dirk splinter has an individual story that when amassed together produces the "Ultimate Self".
This grand narrative that constitutes social identity is nothing more than the sum of individual stories told between pairs of individuals
The grand narrative of a social identity is made up of informal story-telling about that identity.
n some cases, changes in personnel, function, or location may be too much for a social institution to sustain, causing it to die out and be replaced by something that is considered new
Re-branding an institution is a risky process as it may result in the institutions narrative dying out and being replaced by something.
Princeton University.
Example of how to look at a social Institution:
Princeton is not the campus, or the individual students (those change).
you need to think of them not as monolithic, uniform, stable entities—things that “just are”—but as institutions constructed within a dense net-work of other social institutions and meanings.
Social institutions aren't independent/monolithic. They are constructed out of a network of other social institutions.
way to think of these social positions is as a set of stories we tell ourselves; social relations are a network of ties; and the social role is a grand narrative that unifies these stories
Each social institution has a narrative that we tell ourselves about it. The social role is a grand narrative that unifies these stories.
It fulfills a variety of roles and provides links to many other societal insti-tutions.
University is defined by it's connection to other social institutions.
the median (i.e., typical) annual income for a high-school graduate is $35,984; for those with a bachelor’s degree, it is $60,112 (2016 data; Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017d). That $24,128 annual advantage seems like a good deal, but is it really?
At a first glance it looks like receiving a degree has more benefits than not, but is this deceptive?
llows us to see the veneer of social life for what it is and to step outside the “trap” of rapid historical change in order to comprehend what is occurring in our world and the social foundations that may be shifting right under our feet
Also allows us to see how society is changing over time.
, sociologist C. Wright Mills
Argued that people use the sociological imagination to think critically about the world.
the study of human society,
Sociology is the study of human society.