SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS  –  is any structure ormechanism of social order and cooperation

governing the behavior of a set of individualswithin a given human community.

CHARACTERISTICS:  

  Definite objectives  –  they cannot be broken but they can be bended

 

Definite procedures based on customs andtraditions

  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 whichfunctions to replace members of societyand 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 andwoman, (allows same sex marriage)(present) 

  Authority 

  Descent 

MARRIAGE

1.  Replacement of population throughreproduction

2.  Regulation of sexual behavior  – should be regulated in a specialized institution

3.  Ascription of status4.  Economic responsibility for dependents5.  Socialization of the young

6.  Provision of intimacy, belongingness,and emotional support

FORMS OF FAMILY

1.  Nuclear - immediate 

2.  Extended –  with relatives; traditionalform of family in the Philippines 

MONOGAMY AND POLYGAMY

POLYGAMY  –  Polygyny (male with multiplewomen) and Polyandry (female with multiplemen)

AUTHORITY

1.  PATRIARCHAL –  head of the family isa male

   patrilocal –  lives within the

vicinity of the male2.  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 underagecitizens

  Weaken parental control over youths

  Provide opportunities for peer culturesto develop

  Set contexts for the development offriendships and mate selection

EDUCATION VS. SCHOOLING

EDUCATION  –  can be acquired anywhere

K12 EDUCATION 

RELIGION  –   providing and maintaining asense 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 aspecial 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