4.2 Social Institutions

Question 1

What are social institutions?

Answer 1

complexes of roles, norms, and values organized into relatively stable forms that contribute to social order by governing the behavior of people

Question 2

What are some examples of social institutions?

Answer 2

education, family, religion, government, and health care system

Question 3

What is the definition of family?

Answer 3

set of people related by blood, marriage, adoption, or some other agreed upon relationship that signifies some responsibility on each other

Question 4

What are the five functions of family?

Answer 4

1. reproduction and monitoring of sexual behavior
2. protection
3. socialization
4. affection and companionship
5. social status

Question 5

What is the nuclear family?

Answer 5

direct blood relations

Question 6

What is the extended family?

Answer 6

grandparents, aunts, uncles

Question 7

What is monogamy?

Answer 7

form of marriage in which two individuals are married only to each other

Question 8

What is polygamy?

Answer 8

form of marriage in which an individual may have multiple wives or husbands simultaneously

Question 9

What is polygyny?

Answer 9

man married to more than one women

Question 10

What is polyandry?

Answer 10

woman married to more than one man

Question 11

What is endogamy?

Answer 11

practice of marrying within a particular group

Question 12

What is exogamy?

Answer 12

requirement to marry outside of a particular group

Question 13

What is kinship?

Answer 13

how we are related to someone

Question 14

What is bilateral descent?

Answer 14

kin groups involving both maternal and paternal relations

Question 15

What are the three types of authority based on gender?

Answer 15

1. patriarchy
2. matriarchy
3. egalitarian

Question 16

What are the four categories of child abuse?

Answer 16

1. physical
2. emotion
3. sexual
4. neglect

Question 17

What is the manifest function of education?

Answer 17

to systematically pass down knowledge and give status to those who have been educated

Question 18

What is the latent function of education?

Answer 18

socialization, serving as agent of change, and maintaining social control

Question 19

What is education segregation?

Answer 19

widening disparity between children from high income neighborhoods and those from low income neighborhoods

Question 20

What is the teacher expectancy theory?

Answer 20

teacher will form expectations from certain students and those students will begin to perform to those expectations