This document discusses social institutions and defines them as structured social groups that govern members' behavior and promote social order and cooperation. It examines the key characteristics and functions of institutions, including simplifying social behavior, providing social roles and relations, coordinating stability, and controlling behavior. The major social institutions discussed are the family, education, religion, economic institutions, and government. For each institution, the document outlines their defining features, roles, and how they socialize groups.

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” 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
a.Conjugal or Nuclear Family
-the primary or elementary family
consisting of husband, wife and children.
b. Consanguine or Extended Family
-consist of married couple, their
parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunt
s, and cousins.

12. …according to term 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 DESCENT
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. …according to AUTHORITY
a. Partriarchal
- when the father is considered the head
and plays a dominant role.
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.

15. EDUCATION

16. 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.


17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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.

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

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

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

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

24. RELIGION

25. 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.


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

27. 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.

28. 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, friendline
ss and helpfulness.
9. Alleviates sufferings from major
calamities.
10. It provides hope for a blissful life

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

30. Economic
Institutions

31. 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)


32. 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.

33. GOVERNMENT
as a SOCIAL
INSTITUTION

34. 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.


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

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Sandy Mangao Viceno
BSED 3-A
Occidental Mindoro State
College