Chapter 6: Social Institutions Flashcards
refers to organized sets of elements such as beliefs, rules, practices, and relationships that exist to attain social order.
Social Institutions
Well established and structured relationships between groups of people that are considered fundamental components of a society’s culture
Social Institutions
elements of social institutions are defined differently by various perspectives. what are the 2 approaches
Institutional Approach
Relational Approach
A type of approach that tells us that social institutions are ordered sets of rules, norms, beliefs, or values that organize human behavior
Institiutional Approach
A type of approach that focuses on social relations rather than rules, normals, beliefs, or values.
Relational Approach
Examples of social institutions
-family
-economy
-education
-health
-religion
-other non-state institution
Considered a vital social institution
Family
He considered this social institution as having arisen from a man’s desire to leave something of himself behind
Family
According to this family is considered as the foundation of the nation
1987 Constitution
A group of people who are related by blood, marriage, and a shared residence.
Family
Why is family considered as a vital institution?
For the continuity or survival of humanity because it nurtures offspring from childhood into adulthood.
Kinds of Family
Nuclear families
Extended Families
Reconstituted Families
Also known as immediate families, are families that are composed of parents and children.
Nuclear families
Composed of a nuclear family and other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Extended families
Composed of spouses and their children from a previous marriage
Reconstituted families
What is the basis of kinship?
family
A social structure defined by relations among individuals linked by blood or marriage ties.
Kinship
Has a significant influence in defining the social status of individuals in many societies.
Kinship
Kinship ties are based on descent and can be either
matrilineal
patrilineal
bilineal
Kinship by marriage
Affinity
Kinship by blood
Consaguinity
A kinship that one’s descent is based on the female line
Matrilineal
A kinship that one’s descent is based on the male line.
Patrilineal
This kinship refers to a descent system based on both male and female lines.
Bilineal
Formally recognized union of a man and a woman
Marriage
Types of Marriage
Monogamous
Polygamous
Endogamy
Exogamy
A spouse cannot have more than one spouse.
Monogamous
A person can have more than one spouse
Polygamous
Types of Polygamy
Polygyny
Polyandry
A husband could take many wives
Polygyny
A wife can have many husbands
Polyandry
A compulsory marriage in their own community, social group, or religious group
Endogamy
Marriage outside of their own group, community, or social classes.
Exogamy
an institution that addresses questions regarding limited sources of society
economy
market is a self-regulating mechanism, according to him
Adam Smith
according to ______, the answers to the important questions regarding the resources of the society should be determined by the market
liberal economists
free competition will limit the greed of self-interested individuals (true or false)
True
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
socialists
they are made up of those who are involved in the financial sector like bankers, industrialists, and owners of corporations
bourgeoisie
laborers
proletariat
refers to cases when the market becomes inefficient due to imperfect competition, imperfect information, imperfect mobility and the like
market failure
two institutions that uphold basic human rights
education and health institutions
ensures that individuals are functionally literate
educational institutions
ensure that individuals have access to health services to promote universal public health
health institutions
refers to the occurrence of the symptoms of a disease due to the incomplete healing of a patient
binat
refers to trembling hands or fingers
pasma
different kinds of health systems
western health systems
traditional or alternative health systems
based on science and skills of health workers are standardized and learned from health sciences schools
western health systems
these health systems have been in existence even before the introduction of western health system
traditional or alternative health system
an institution that involves a set of beliefs and practices of a particular social group
religion
religion can be classified
monotheistic and polytheistic
refers to religions that believe in only one god
monotheism
religions believe in many Gods
polytheistic
examples of monotheistic religion
christianity
judaism
islam
not a religion but a belief system that holds that both animate and inanimate things have a spiritual essence
animism
example of a polytheistic religion
hinduism
states with governments that are under the power of religious leaders
theocracies
