Traditional Social Institutions

Watch the Amy’s Kitchen episode from the famous show Chef Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare.

Part 2 discussion

(1) What do we identify as traditional social institutions?

(2) Social institutions are established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior. They include family, education, religion, work, ethnic identity, social identity, and economic and political institutions.  Do you think the stability of traditional social institutions are changing with advancement of technology?

(3) Has this been good or bad? Why?

 Part 3 discussion

(1) How much is too much technology?

(2) Is there a line where we drown in our devices and lose ourselves in the outside world?

(3) Can this create the tension and disconnect with families? Co-workers? Friends?