SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

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refer to organized set of elements such as beliefs rules etc that exist to attain social order

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social institutions

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elements of social institutions

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• institutional approach

- relational approach

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ordered set of rules norms etc that organize human behavior

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institutional approach

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focuses on social relations rather than rules norms etc

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relational approach

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analyzing social institutions

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it is important on how to determine how their different elements are organized into a coherent whole

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reinforce one another rather then conflict with one another

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tenets

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primary examples of social institutions

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family
economy
education
health
religion
nonstate institutions

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vital social institutions

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family

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is a group of people who are related by birth marriage and shared residences

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family

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he considered the family as having arisen from man’s desire to leave something of himself behind

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aristotle

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kinds of families

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nuclear families
extended families
reconstituted families

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families that are composed if parents and children

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nuclear families

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composed of nuclear family and other relatives

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extended families

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composed of spouses and their children from a previous marriage

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reconstituted families

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

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kinship

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types of kinship

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matrilineal kinship- female line

patrilinelal kinship- male line

bilineal kinship- both male and female lines

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culture specific

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marriage

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types of marriage

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monogamous - spouse cannot have more than one spouse

polygamous - can have more than one spouse

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types of polygamy

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polygyny - husband could take many wives

polyandry - wife can have many husbands

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is an institution that addresses questions regarding limited resources of society

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economy

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the answers to the questions should ne determined by the market

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accrdg to liberal economists

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self-regulating mechanism

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accrdg to adam smith

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believe that the bourgeoisie or the social class that largely controls the means of production

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socialist

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involved in the financial sector like bankers

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bourgeoisie

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argued that wealth is concentrated on the few

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karl marx

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argued that market and the state should be under the control of proletariat or the laborers

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marx and engels

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communism is the solution to the alienation

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accrdg to marx

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“invisible hand of the market”

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john maynard keynes

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market becomes inefficient

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market failures

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uphold basic human rights

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educational and health institutions

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ensures that individuals are functionally literate

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educational inst

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ensures that individuals have access to health services

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health inst

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function of edu inst

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to provide skilled labor to the economy

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primary obj of edu inst

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to provide universal education regardless of the social status

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

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religion

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organized into a group that has universal membership supported by the larger society

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church

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(group that has universal membership) organized into an exclusive usually challenges the norms of larger society

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sect

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classifications of religion

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monotheistic - believe only in one god ex. christianity polytheistic - believe in many gods ex. hinduism

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not considered religion but rather a belief system

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animism ex. shintoism

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“opiate of the masses”

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marx

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dominance of religion is part of the biological phase of the development of society

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august comte

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predicts the decrease in the influence of religion

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secularization theory

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under the power of religious leaders

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theocracies