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    Social institutions are structures that govern social order and cooperation within a community. They have definite objectives and procedures based on customs and traditions. Key social institutions include family, education, economic systems, politics, and religion. Family is the basic social institution and is defined by kinship, with the primary goals of replacing members of society and nurturing new ones. Family structures can be nuclear, consisting of immediate family, or extended, including relatives. Authority structures and rules of descent also help define families. Religion is a social institution that provides a sense of purpose. It utilizes rituals, symbols, and belief systems to bring people together and guide behaviors. Religious organizations have distinct structures ranging from large ecclesiae to smaller

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    Social institutions are structures that govern social order and cooperation within a community. They have definite objectives and procedures based on customs and traditions. Key social institutions include family, education, economic systems, politics, and religion. Family is the basic social institution and is defined by kinship, with the primary goals of replacing members of society and nurturing new ones. Family structures can be nuclear, consisting of immediate family, or extended, including relatives. Authority structures and rules of descent also help define families. Religion is a social institution that provides a sense of purpose. It utilizes rituals, symbols, and belief systems to bring people together and guide behaviors. Religious organizations have distinct structures ranging from large ecclesiae to smaller

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    Social institutions are structures that govern social order and cooperation within a community. They have definite objectives and procedures based on customs and traditions. Key social institutions include family, education, economic systems, politics, and religion. Family is the basic social institution and is defined by kinship, with the primary goals of replacing members of society and nurturing new ones. Family structures can be nuclear, consisting of immediate family, or extended, including relatives. Authority structures and rules of descent also help define families. Religion is a social institution that provides a sense of purpose. It utilizes rituals, symbols, and belief systems to bring people together and guide behaviors. Religious organizations have distinct structures ranging from large ecclesiae to smaller

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    SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS is any structure or

    mechanism of social order and cooperation


    governing the behavior of a set of individuals
    within a given human community.
    CHARACTERISTICS:
    Definite objectives they cannot be
    broken but they can be bended
    Definite procedures based on customs and
    traditions
    Depend on collective activities of people
    Interdependent
    Involve authority or power
    Behavioral patterns are relatively
    permanent

    Replacing members - family

    Teaching new members or recruits -
    education

    Producing, distributing and consuming -
    economic

    Preserving order - politics

    Providing and maintaining a sense of
    purpose religion

    FAMILY basic unit
    Social institution based on kinship which
    functions to replace members of society
    and nurture new ones.
    Blood (mother and daughter), legal
    (husband and wife)

    BOUNDED BY THREE RULES
    Marriage union of man and woman
    (before), the legal union of man and
    woman, (allows same sex marriage)
    (present)
    Authority
    Descent


    MARRIAGE
    1. Replacement of population through
    reproduction
    2. Regulation of sexual behavior should
    be regulated in a specialized institution
    3. Ascription of status
    4. Economic responsibility for dependents
    5. Socialization of the young
    6. Provision of intimacy, belongingness,
    and emotional support
    FORMS OF FAMILY
    1. Nuclear - immediate
    2. Extended with relatives; traditional
    form of family in the Philippines

    MONOGAMY AND POLYGAMY
    POLYGAMY Polygyny (male with multiple
    women) and Polyandry (female with multiple
    men)
    AUTHORITY
    1. PATRIARCHAL head of the family is
    a male
    patrilocal lives within the
    vicinity of the male
    2. MATRIARCHAL head of the family
    is a female
    matrilocal lives within the
    vicinity of the female
    DESCENT
    CONSANGUINEAL KIN related by blood
    AFFINAL related by law

    MANIFEST intended goals
    Socialize children to be a productive
    members of the society
    Select and train individuals for a
    position in the society
    Promote social participation, change and
    innovation
    Enhance personal independence and
    social development
    LATENT Confine and supervise underage
    citizens
    Weaken parental control over youths
    Provide opportunities for peer cultures
    to develop
    Set contexts for the development of
    friendships and mate selection
    EDUCATION VS. SCHOOLING
    EDUCATION can be acquired anywhere
    K12 EDUCATION

    RELIGION providing and maintaining a
    sense of purpose
    RITUALS and SYMBOLS
    Symbols artifacts
    start and death
    BELIEF SYSTEM
    animism not as gods but as guides,
    shamans (babaylan), totemism e.g.
    construction of an icon to be place on a
    special spot in our houses
    theism monotheism, polytheism
    ethicalism truth, honor, tolerance
    (respect)
    ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
    ecclesiae
    denominations smaller number than
    Catholics
    sects
    cults practice outside a religion

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