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Its Major Types and Characteristics

Social institutions satisfy important social needs and functions through established patterns of behavior and roles. The main types of social institutions are: 1. Economic institutions deal with property and economic well-being. 2. Political institutions deal with laws, courts, and social control. 3. Families are based on kinship and social norms around marriage and child-rearing. 4. Education institutions provide training, knowledge, and socialization. 5. Religions build religious beliefs and values and play a role in social control.

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Its Major Types and Characteristics

Social institutions satisfy important social needs and functions through established patterns of behavior and roles. The main types of social institutions are: 1. Economic institutions deal with property and economic well-being. 2. Political institutions deal with laws, courts, and social control. 3. Families are based on kinship and social norms around marriage and child-rearing. 4. Education institutions provide training, knowledge, and socialization. 5. Religions build religious beliefs and values and play a role in social control.

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SOCIAL

INSTITUTION
S
Its Major Types and
Characteristics
Social Institutions
 In Sociology, it is an interrelated system of
social roles and social norms, organized
around the satisfaction of an important social
need or social function.
Social Institution/s
 In general, it is an established pattern of
behavior that is organized to perpetuate the
welfare of society and to preserve its form.
Definitions of Institutions in
Sociology
“The social structure and machinery
through which society organizes, directs,
executes the multifarious activities required
to satisfy various needs.”
H.E. Barnes
Definitions of Institutions in
Sociology
They consider institution as “an established
forms or the condition of a procedure.”

Maclver & Page


TYPES OF
SOCIAL
INSTITUTION
S
1. Economic Institution
 Itdeals with property and economic well
being of society, economic solidarity of
state.
2. Political Institution
 Itdeals with governing laws, courts, and
social control.
3. Family
 Itis based on kinship, social norms, social
relations created by customs and
marriage.
4. Education
 It deals with training people in various
roles, values, knowledge building human
being’s characters. Which varies from
place to place but process remains the
same.
5. Religion
 Itbuilds the religious beliefs and values. In
process, it plays major role in social
control.
Roles OF
SOCIAL
INSTITUTION
S
Primary Function Secondary
Function

To fulfil the To look


basic needs of beyond the
people basic needs

Social
Institutions
Primary Secondary
Function Function
See the required
production is
Uses of
done,
resources,
opportunities are
establish growth
created,
pattern, provide
Resources are
basic needs and
exchanged,
social security
distributed and
consumed.

Economic
Institution
Primary Secondary
Function Function
Maintaining
Protecting the peace and order
society from at micro and
internal disorder, macro levels;
crime and chaos; enforcing social
as well as control; and
external threats maintaining the
and invasion welfare and well-
being of society.

Political
Institution
Primary Function Secondary
Function

Parents play the


roles of
Reproduction nurturing, caring
for, teaching and
and training children
Socialization (good and
teachable
trainees.

Family
Primary Secondary
Function Function
To provide
training for the To prepare
members of members of
society. To serve society for the
as center of statuses and
knowledge roles that re
production, associate with
exchange and human
distribution

Education
Primary Function Secondary
Function
To help people to
To meet or
cope with
provide spiritual
purposelessness,
needs of the
meaningless and
members. To
sense of
give meaning of
alienation and
the human life,
frustration. To
human destiny,
teach values and
and the universe
norms

Religion

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