Social Institution

Hi Weijia, Thank you for your response to my post. I agree to what you have said, moral standard and ideal type do affect our behaviour and mind as we try to be "normal" in the society. I think gender role is one of the strongest norm people would follow since they were born. As the first social institution, family, children have already deeply rooted how they should act as a male or female according to their sex. If the child does not act their "normal" gender role, they might be exclude from the group or other social institution (e.g. school or community). Therefore, the behaviour and mind set are influenced by social institution as Durkheim suggests.