Details about Social Institutions and Education

1. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
AND EDUCATION
Presented By:
ATAUR RAHAMAN
Class: M.Ed. 2nd Sem.
Reg. No: EME-051702
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KERALA

2. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
AND EDUCATION

3. WHAT IS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION ?
Institutions are:
The Structures and Mechanisms of Social Order.
Social Institutions include: The Family, Religion, Peer Group,
Economic Systems, Legal Systems, Penal Systems,
Language, and the Media.
Cooperation Governing the Behaviour of a set of Individuals
within a given Human Collectively.

4. CONT...
WHAT IS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION ?
Social Institution is a Group of Social Positions,
Connected by Social relations, Performing a social role.
Any Institution in a society that works to socialize the
groups of people in it.
Ex. Universities, Governments, Families Etc.

5. DEFINITION
• Groups of Persons Banded Together for
Common Purposes having Rights,
Privileges, Liabilities, Goals or Objectives
distinct and Independent from those of
Individual Members.

6. Institution Satisfy the Basic Needs of
Society.
Institutions simplify social behaviour
for the individual person.
Functions of Institutions
Institutions Provide Roles for
Individuals.
Act as agencies of coordination and
stability for the total culture.
Control behaviour.

7. Institutions are purposive:
Each of them has the satisfaction of
social needs as its own goal or objective.
Characteristics of Institution
Palispis (1996) pointed out the following characteristics:
 Institutions are Purposive
 Relatively Permanent in their
Content.
 Institutions are Structured.

8. Relatively permanent in their content:
The pattern roles and relations that people
enact in a particular culture become
traditional enduring.
Although institutions are subject to
change, the change is relatively slow.
Institutions are structured:
The components tend to band together,
reinforce one another.
This is because social roles and social
relations are in themselves structured
combinations of behaviour patterns.
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Characteristics of Institution

9. MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
 The Family/Home
 Education/School
 Religion
 Mass Media
 Government as a Social
Institution