Submitted by Dee Fatouros
At times it may appear as though there is complete chaos overtaking every aspect of the American way of life. Make no mistake, the chaos is planned. The previous five essays of this group detailed the assaults upon each of the five major social institutions that govern not only America, but every society.
The purpose of this series is to provide a frame of reference in which each attack can be easily recognized and how they are intertwined.
This write up is the conclusion to the series.
A recap of the five major social institutions:
1. The Family:
A socially defined set of relationships between at least two people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or, in some definitions, long-standing ties of intimacy.
2. Education:
A formal process in which knowledge, skills, and values are systematically transmitted from one individual or group to another.
3. Religion:
A unified system of beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural and to norms about the right way to live that is shared by a group of believers. Sociologists treat religion as a social rather than supernatural phenomenon.
4. Economic Institutions:
Sociologists understand the economy as the set of arrangements by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods, services, and other resources.
5. Political Institutions:
Institutions that pertain to the governance of a society, its formal distribution of authority, its use of force, and its relationships to other societies and political units. The state, an important political institution in modern societies, is the apparatus of governance over a particular territory.
This write up will outline the big picture and the endgame.
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