Premium
Some disfunctions of institutional imbalances
Author(s) -
Tumin Melvin M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830010305
Subject(s) - affection , quality (philosophy) , business , public relations , economic system , psychology , social psychology , economics , political science , epistemology , philosophy
In most societies, individuals perform in several roles associated with several institutions. The rewards for quality of performance may be given on different bases in the different situations. For example, rewards in the economic sphere may be in money and within the family in affection. However, in some societies, as in our own, one type of role (and the associated institutions) may become so important that its values “invade” other roles and institutions. As a result, the evaluations of performance proper in the dominant institutions tend to be substituted for evaluations proper in others. The results may be strains on individuals and on the over‐all goal achievement of the society.