Chapter 6: Social Institutions Flashcards

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refers to organized sets of elements such as beliefs, rules, practices, and relationships that exist to attain social order.

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Social Institutions

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2
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Well established and structured relationships between groups of people that are considered fundamental components of a society’s culture

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Social Institutions

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3
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elements of social institutions are defined differently by various perspectives. what are the 2 approaches

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Institutional Approach
Relational Approach

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4
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A type of approach that tells us that social institutions are ordered sets of rules, norms, beliefs, or values that organize human behavior

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Institiutional Approach

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5
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A type of approach that focuses on social relations rather than rules, normals, beliefs, or values.

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Relational Approach

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6
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Examples of social institutions

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-family
-economy
-education
-health
-religion
-other non-state institution

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7
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Considered a vital social institution

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Family

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8
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He considered this social institution as having arisen from a man’s desire to leave something of himself behind

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Family

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9
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According to this family is considered as the foundation of the nation

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1987 Constitution

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10
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A group of people who are related by blood, marriage, and a shared residence.

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Family

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11
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Why is family considered as a vital institution?

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For the continuity or survival of humanity because it nurtures offspring from childhood into adulthood.

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12
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Kinds of Family

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Nuclear families
Extended Families
Reconstituted Families

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13
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Also known as immediate families, are families that are composed of parents and children.

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Nuclear families

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14
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Composed of a nuclear family and other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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Extended families

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15
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Composed of spouses and their children from a previous marriage

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Reconstituted families

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16
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What is the basis of kinship?

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family

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17
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A social structure defined by relations among individuals linked by blood or marriage ties.

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Kinship

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18
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Has a significant influence in defining the social status of individuals in many societies.

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Kinship

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19
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Kinship ties are based on descent and can be either

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matrilineal
patrilineal
bilineal

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20
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Kinship by marriage

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Affinity

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21
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Kinship by blood

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Consaguinity

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22
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A kinship that one’s descent is based on the female line

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Matrilineal

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23
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A kinship that one’s descent is based on the male line.

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Patrilineal

24
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This kinship refers to a descent system based on both male and female lines.

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Bilineal

25
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Formally recognized union of a man and a woman

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Marriage

26
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Types of Marriage

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Monogamous
Polygamous
Endogamy
Exogamy

27
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A spouse cannot have more than one spouse.

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Monogamous

28
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A person can have more than one spouse

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Polygamous

29
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Types of Polygamy

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Polygyny
Polyandry

30
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A husband could take many wives

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Polygyny

30
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A wife can have many husbands

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Polyandry

31
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A compulsory marriage in their own community, social group, or religious group

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Endogamy

32
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Marriage outside of their own group, community, or social classes.

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Exogamy

33
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an institution that addresses questions regarding limited sources of society

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economy

34
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market is a self-regulating mechanism, according to him

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Adam Smith

35
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according to ______, the answers to the important questions regarding the resources of the society should be determined by the market

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liberal economists

36
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free competition will limit the greed of self-interested individuals (true or false)

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True

37
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they believe that the bourgeoisie or the social class that largely controls the means of production would have an overwhelming control over the free market economy

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socialists

38
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they are made up of those who are involved in the financial sector like bankers, industrialists, and owners of corporations

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bourgeoisie

39
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laborers

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proletariat

40
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refers to cases when the market becomes inefficient due to imperfect competition, imperfect information, imperfect mobility and the like

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market failure

41
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two institutions that uphold basic human rights

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education and health institutions

42
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ensures that individuals are functionally literate

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educational institutions

43
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ensure that individuals have access to health services to promote universal public health

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health institutions

44
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refers to the occurrence of the symptoms of a disease due to the incomplete healing of a patient

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binat

45
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refers to trembling hands or fingers

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pasma

46
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different kinds of health systems

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western health systems
traditional or alternative health systems

47
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based on science and skills of health workers are standardized and learned from health sciences schools

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western health systems

48
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these health systems have been in existence even before the introduction of western health system

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traditional or alternative health system

49
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an institution that involves a set of beliefs and practices of a particular social group

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religion

50
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religion can be classified

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monotheistic and polytheistic

51
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refers to religions that believe in only one god

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monotheism

52
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religions believe in many Gods

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polytheistic

53
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examples of monotheistic religion

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christianity
judaism
islam

54
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not a religion but a belief system that holds that both animate and inanimate things have a spiritual essence

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animism

55
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example of a polytheistic religion

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hinduism

56
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states with governments that are under the power of religious leaders

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theocracies