Social institutions are structured social mechanisms that govern behavior and promote social order and cooperation. The main social institutions discussed in the document are the family, education, religion, economic institutions, and government. Each institution has various functions, such as socializing individuals, transmitting culture, and controlling behavior, in order to maintain social stability.

1. Social
Instituti
ons

2. What is Social Institution?
Is a social structures and social
mechanisms of social order and
cooperation that govern the behavior
of its members.
Is a group of social positions,
connected by social relations,
performing a social role.
Any institution in a society that
works to socialize the group of people
in it.

3. Characteristics of an Institution
Palispis (1996)
Institutions are purposive.
Relatively permanent in content.
Institutions are structured.
Institutions are a unified structure.
Institutions are necessarily value-
laden.

4. Functions of an Institutions
1. Institutions simplify social behavior for the
individual person.
2. Provide ready-made forms of social
relations and social roles for individual.
3. Act as agencies of coordination and
stability for the total culture.
4. Control behavior.

5. Major Social
Institutions
The Family
Education
Religion
Economic Institutions
Government as a Social Institution

6. The Family

7. The Family
The smallest social institution with the unique
function or producing and rearing the young.
It is the basic unit of Philippine society and the
educational system where the child begins to
learn his ABC.
The basic agent of socialization because it is
here where the individual develops values,
behaviors, and ways of life through interaction
with members of the family (Vega, 2004).

8. Characteristic of the Filipino
Family
The family is closely knit and has strong
family ties.
The Filipino family is usually extended
one and therefore, big.
In the Filipino family, kinship ties are
extended to include the “compadre” and
“comadre”or sponsors.

9. Functions of the Family
1. Reproduction of the race and rearing of the
young.
2. Cultural transmission or enculturation.
3. Socialization of the child.
4. Providing affection and a sense of security.
5. Providing the environment for personality
development and the growth of self-concept
in relation to others.
6. Providing social status.

10. Kinds of Family

11. According to Structure
b. Consanguine or Extended Family
-consist of married couple, their
parents, siblings, grandparents,
uncles, aunts, and cousins.
a.Conjugal or Nuclear Family
-the primary or elementary family
consisting of husband, wife and children.

12. According to Terms of
Marriage
a. Polyandry
-one woman is married to two or
more men at the same time.
b.Polygamy
-one man is married to two or more
women at the same time.
c. Cenogamy
- two or more men mate with two or
more women in group marriage.

13. According to Place of Residence
a. Patrilocal
-when the newly married couple lives
with the parents of the husband.
b. Matrilocal
- when the newly married couple lives
with the parents of the wife.
c. Neolocal
- when the newly married pair
maintains a separate household and
live by themselves.

14. a. Partriarchal
- when the father is considered the
head and plays a dominant role.
According to Authority

15. b. Matriarchal
- when the mother or female is the head
and makes the major decisions.
c. Equalitarian
- when both father and mother share in
making decisions and are equal in authority.

16. According to Line of Descent
a. Patrilineal
-the descent is recognized through the father’s
line.
b. Matrilineal
- the descent is recognized through the
mother’s line.
c. Bilineal
- it is the descent is recognized through both
side or line.

17. EDUCATION

18. Education…
 A form of learning in which
the knowledge, skills, and habits of
a group of people are transferred
from one generation to the next
through teaching, training, or
research.

19. What are the functions of Schools?
Mcnergney & Herbert(2001)
-described the school as first and foremost a
social institution, that is , an established
organization having an identifiable structure
and a set of functions meant to preserve and
extend social order.
 School is the place for the contemplation of
reality, and our task as a teacher , in simplest
terms, is to show this reality to our students,
who are naturally eager about them.

20. Intellectual Purposes…
…to teach basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing,
and mathematics; to transmit specific knowledge.
Political Purposes…
…to inculcate allegiance to the existing
political order(patriotism).
…to prepare citizens who will participate in
the political order.
…to assimilate diverse cultural groups into
political order.
…and to teach children the basic laws of
society.

21. Social Purpose…
…to socialize children into the various
roles, behavior, and values of society.
Economic Purpose…
…to prepare students for their later
occupational roles, and to select,
train, and allocate individuals into the
division of labor.

22. Multiple Functions of Schools
Technical- Economic
 Human/ Social
 Political
 Cultural
 Education

23. Manifest Functions of Schools
Social Control
 Socialization
 Social Placement
 Transmitting Culture
 Promoting Social & Political
Integration
 Agent of Change

24. Latent Functions of Schools
Restricting some activities.
 Matchmaking and production
of social networks.
 Creation of generation gap.

25. Functions of School
Calderon(1998)
 Conservation Function
 Instructional Function
 Research Function
Social Service Function

27. What is RELIGION?
Is a system of beliefs and rituals that serves to
bind people together through shared worship,
thereby creating a social group.
set of beliefs and practices that pertain to a
sacred or supernatural realm that guides human
behavior and gives meaning to life among a
community of believers.
A patterns of beliefs concerning the ultimate
meaning of life; it assumes the existence of the
supernatural.

28. Functions of Religion
Calderon(1998)
1. Serves as a means of social control.
2. Exerts a great influence upon personality
development.
3. Allays fear of unknown.
4. Explains events or situations which are
beyond comprehension of man.
5. Gives man comfort, strength and hope in
times of crisis and despair.

29. Characteristics of Religion
Belief in a deity.
A doctrine of salvation.
A code of conduct.
Religious rituals.

30. 6. It preserves and transmit
knowledge, skills, spiritual, and
cultural values and practices.
7. It serves as an instrument of
change.
8. Promotes closeness, love,
cooperation, friendliness and
helpfulness.
9. Alleviates sufferings from major

31. Three Elements of Religion
Sacred and profane.
Legitimation of norms.
Rituals.
Religious community.

32. Difference among Churches‚ Sects and Cults
Churches
-tends toward greater intellectual
examination and interpretation of the tenants of
religion.

33. Sect
tends toward the emotional‚ mystic stress‚
and faith feeling to be “to be born again”.
Cults
more innovative institutions and are
formed when people create new religious
beliefs and practices

34. Economic
Institutions

35. Macroeconomics
vs.
Microeconomics

36. Microeconomics
 Concerned with the specific economic units of
parts that makes an economic system and the
relationship between those parts.
 Emphasis is placed on understanding the
behavior of individual firms, industries,
households, and ways in which such entities
interact.
(Spencer, 1980; Javier,2002)

37. Macroeconomics
Concerned with the economy as a
whole, or large segments of it
It focuses on such problems as the role
of unemployment, the changing level of
prices, the nation’s total output of goods
and services, and the ways in which
government raises and spends money.

38. 3 Basic Economic Problems;
 What goods and services to produce
and how much. In business‚ a study
determines whether a certain goods
or services becomes profitable or
not.

39. How to produce goods and services. As a
general rule‚ goods and services must be
produced in the most efficient manner. It
means minimum input without sacrificing
quality.
Such production efficiency has a greatly
contributed to the high standard of living of
the industrialized countries.

40.  For whom are the goods and
services. In most countries‚ those
who have more money acquire more
goods and services than the poor.

42. Government…
 Is the institution which solves conflicts that
are public in nature and involve more than a few
people.
 The SC defines government as the institution
by which an independent society makes and
carries out those rules of action which are
necessary to enable men to live in a social state,
or which are imposed upon the people for that
society by those who possess the power or
authority of prescribing them.

43. Three Branches of
Government
Executive
Legislative
Judicial

44. FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
1.The Constituent Function
- contribute to the very bonds of society
and are therefore compulsory.

45. Constituent as follows:
 keeping of order and providing for the protection
of person and property from violence and robbery.
 fixing of the legal relations between husband and
wife‚ and between parents and children.
Regulation of the holding‚ transmission and
interchange of property and the determination of
its liabilities for the debt or for crime.

46. Determination of contractual rights
between individuals.
Definition and punishment for crimes;
Administration of justice in civil cases;
Administration of political duties‚
privileges and relations of citizens; and

47. Dealing of the state with foreign growers‚
the preservation of the state from
external danger or encroachment and the
advancement of its international affairs
and interests.

48. 2. The Ministrant Function
- those undertaken to advance the general
interest of society‚ such as public works‚ public
charity‚ and regulation of trade and industry. These
function are mere optional.