Social Institutions

Prepared by:Myren R. Valenciano(February 07, 2012)

What Is a Social Institution?• a group of social positions, connected by social relations, performing a social role.• also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to socialize the groups of people in it.

*Group of people banded together for common purposes having rights, privilege’s, liabilities, goals, or objectives distinct and independent from those of individual members.

Other definition:

*Universities, governments, families, and any people or groups that you have social interactions with.

Common Examples of Social Institution:

1.Community2.Community Service Organizations3.Educational Institutions4.Ethnic or Cultural Groups5.Extended Family Families and Households6.Governments and Legal Institutions7.Health Care Institutions8.Intellectual and Cultural Organizations Market Institutions 9.Political and Non Government Organizations10.Religious Organizations

Social Institutions Categories:

Characteristic and functions of an Institution

1. Institution are purposive. Each of them has the satisfaction of social needs

as its own goal or objective. They are relatively permanent in their

content. The pattern roles and relations that people enact in particular culture

become traditional and enduring.

CHARACTERISTICS:

Palispis ( 1996 ) :

2.Institutions are structured. The components tend to band together, and reinforce one

another. 3.Institutions are unified structure. They function

as a unit. Institutions are dependent on one another.

4. Institutions are necessarily value-laden. Their repeated uniformities , patterns and trends become

codes of conduct. 5.Institutions are necessarily value-laden.

Their repeated uniformities patterns and trends become codes of conduct.

FUNCTIONS:

1.Institutions simplify social behavior for the individual person.

2.Institutions, thererfore , provide ready-made forms

of social relations for the individual.

3.Institutions also act as agencies of coordination and stability for the total

culture.

4.Institutionds tend to control behavior. They contain the systematic expectations

of the society .

Functional Theorists : Five Essential Tasks

* Replacing members or procreation, teaching new members, producing, distributing and consuming goods

and services, preserving order, and providing and maintaining a sense of purpose.

*Group behavior is often subconsciously fixed through constant repetition and when there

is a need for planning, the group can easily ascertain from its

institutions the normal modes, trends and procedures.

References:*Social Dimensions Of Education, Copy right,

2006 by: Violeta A. Vega, Ph.D. ; Nelia G.Prieto; Myrna L. Carreon, Ed.D. ;

Lorimar Publishing CO. , INC.*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organization

*: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)Sustainable Development Indicator Group

Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996http://www.hq.nasa.gov/iwgsdi/Social_Institutions.html

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