Chapter 6: Social Institutions

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Social Institutions

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Social Institutions

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Institutional Approach
Relational Approach

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Institiutional Approach

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Relational Approach

Question 6

Examples of social institutions

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Considered a vital social institution

Answer 7

Family

Question 8

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

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Family

Question 9

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

Answer 9

1987 Constitution

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Family

Question 11

Why is family considered as a vital institution?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Kinds of Family

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Nuclear families
Extended Families
Reconstituted Families

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Nuclear families

Question 14

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

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Extended families

Question 15

Composed of spouses and their children from a previous marriage

Answer 15

Reconstituted families

Question 16

What is the basis of kinship?

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family

Question 17

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

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Kinship

Question 18

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

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Kinship

Question 19

Kinship ties are based on descent and can be either

Answer 19

matrilineal
patrilineal
bilineal

Question 20

Kinship by marriage

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Affinity

Question 21

Kinship by blood

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Consaguinity

Question 22

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

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Matrilineal

Question 23

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

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Patrilineal

Question 24

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

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Bilineal

Question 25

Formally recognized union of a man and a woman

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Marriage

Question 26

Types of Marriage

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Monogamous Polygamous Endogamy Exogamy

Question 27

A spouse cannot have more than one spouse.

Answer 27

Monogamous

Question 28

A person can have more than one spouse

Answer 28

Polygamous

Question 29

Types of Polygamy

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Polygyny Polyandry

Question 30

A husband could take many wives

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Polygyny

Question 30

A wife can have many husbands

Answer 30

Polyandry

Question 31

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

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Endogamy

Question 32

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

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Exogamy

Question 33

an institution that addresses questions regarding limited sources of society

Answer 33

economy

Question 34

market is a self-regulating mechanism, according to him

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Adam Smith

Question 35

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

Answer 35

liberal economists

Question 36

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

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True

Question 37

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

Answer 37

socialists

Question 38

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

Question 39

laborers

Answer 39

proletariat

Question 40

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

Question 41

two institutions that uphold basic human rights

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education and health institutions

Question 42

ensures that individuals are functionally literate

Answer 42

educational institutions

Question 43

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

Answer 43

health institutions

Question 44

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

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binat

Question 45

refers to trembling hands or fingers

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pasma

Question 46

different kinds of health systems

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western health systems traditional or alternative health systems

Question 47

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

Answer 47

western health systems

Question 48

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

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traditional or alternative health system

Question 49

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

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religion

Question 50

religion can be classified

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monotheistic and polytheistic

Question 51

refers to religions that believe in only one god

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monotheism

Question 52

religions believe in many Gods

Answer 52

polytheistic

Question 53

examples of monotheistic religion

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christianity judaism islam

Question 54

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

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animism

Question 55

example of a polytheistic religion

Answer 55

hinduism

Question 56

states with governments that are under the power of religious leaders

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theocracies