SOCIAL INSTITUTION is a group of social positions, connected by social relations, performing a social role.
MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Functions of the Family
- Reproduction of the race and rearing of the young
- Cultural transmission or enculturation
- Socialization of the child
- Providing affection and a sense of security
- Providing social status
- Technical and Economic Functions
- Human/Social Functions
- Political Functions
- Cultural Functions
- Education Functions
- Socialization
- Social control
- Social Placement
- Transmitting Culture
- Promoting Social and Political Integration
- Agent of Change
- Restricting some activities
- Matchmaking and production
- of social networks
- Creation of generation gap
- Conservation Function
- Instructional Function
- Research Function
- Social Service Function
Difference among churches, sects and cults
Church
• large
• inclusive membership
• low tension with surrounding society
• greater intellectual examination and interpretation of the tenants of religion
Sect
• small
• exclusive membership
• high tension with surrounding society
• literal in teaching
Cults
Stark and Bainbridge (1985)
• more innovative institutions
• formed when people create new religious beliefs and practices
Both categories involve the construction of theories and formulation of policies-activities that are the heart of economics.
THE CONSTITUENT FUNCTIONS
- the keeping of order and providing for the protection of the persons and property from violence and robber
- the fixing of legal relations
- the regulation of the holding, transmission, and the interchange of property, and the determination of its liabilities for the debt or for crime
- the determination of contractual rights
- the definition and punishment of rights
- the administration of political duties, privileges and relations of citizens; and
- the dealings of the state with foreign growers
THE MINISTRANT FUNCTIONS
- those undertaken to advance the general interest of society, such as public works, public charity; and regulation of trade and industry.
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Functions
of
Government
Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics
MACROECONOMICS
MICROECONOMICS
It is concerned with the economy as a whole, or large segments of it. It focuses on such problems as the role of unemployment, the changing level of prices, the nation's total output of goods and services, and the ways in which government raises and spends money.
It is concerned with the specific
economic units of parts that make
an economic system and the
relationship between
those parts.
Basic Economic Problems
1. What goods and services to produce and how much?
2. How to produce goods and services?
3. For whom are the goods and services?
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Elements of Religion
Functions of Religion
- Sacred and Profane
- Legitimation of Norms
- Rituals
- Religious Community
1. Religion serves as a means of social control.
2. It exerts a great influence upon personality development.
3. Religion allays fear of the unknown.
4. Religion explains events or situations which are beyond the comprehension of man.
5. It gives man comfort, strength an hope in times of crisis and despair.
6. It preserves and transmits knowledge, skills, spiritual and cultural values and practices.
7. It serves as an instrument of change.
8. It promotes closeness, love, cooperation, friendliness, and helpfulness.
9. Religion alleviates sufferings from major calamities.
10. It provides hope for a blissful life after death.
Purposes of Schools
Functions of School
- Intellectual
- Political
- Social
- Economic
Manifest Functions of Education
Latent Functions of Education
Functions of School as Stated by Calderon
CHILDREN OF MARY SCHOOL
Characteristics of Religion
CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS OF AN INSTITUTION
SCHOOL SERVICE
- Belief in a deity or in a power beyond the individual
- A doctrine (accepted teaching) of salvation
- A code of conduct
- The use of sacred stories, and
- Religious rituals (acts and ceremonies)
- Institutions are purposive.
- They are relatively permanent in their content.
- Institutions are structured.
- Institutions are unified structure.
- Institutions are necessarily value-laden.
TRAVERS & REBORE (1990) DEFINE RELIGION AS THAT WHICH INVOLVES
- a belief about the meaning of life
- a commitment by the individual and the group to this belief
- a system of moral practices resulting from commitment to this belief, and
- a recognition by the proponents of this belief that is supreme or absolute
FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTION
- Simplify social behavior for the individual person.
- Provide ready-made forms of social relations and social roles for the individual.
- Act as agencies of coordination and stability for the total culture.
- Institutions tend to control over behavior.
It can also be defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to socialize the groups of people in it.
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