Subject: SociologyTopic: Family Institution

Social institutions

Institutions are the structures and mechanisms of

social order.Cooperation governing the

behavior of a set of individuals within a given human collectivity.

Institutions include the family, religion, peer group, economic systems, legal systems, penal systems, language, and the media

GENERAL FUCTIONS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 1. Institution Satisfy the Basic Needs of

Society.2. Institution Define Dominant Social Values.“Bill of Rights”3. Institutions Establish Permanent Patterns of Social BehaviorMonogamy4. Institutions Support Other Institutions.“Adultery”.5. Institutions Provide Roles for Individuals .Husband and Wife

The family

Family is a micro unit of social system.

Family is an institute of social system.

Family is a key of social system.

An institution is a part of social system

Definition1 Ember and EmberA Family is a social and economic unit

consisting minimally of one or more parents and their children.

2 MardockA family is a social group characterized by

common residence, economics co-operation and reproduction-

3 Robert Lowie“Family is a group based on material

relation rights and duties and parenthood, common habitations and reciprocal relation between parents and children.

Some common features of family1. A matting relationship (mating)

2. Form of marriage according to which the mating relation is established and maintained.

3. System of nomenclature and economic system or group having duties and oblige.

4. A common habitation of home or house hold

Functions of family:

There are two types of general functions of family institution.

Essential functions.

Non-essential functions

Essential functions.

1) Sexual.

2) Reproduction and maintain of the children.

3) Placement.

4) Socialization.

Non-essential functions

1) Economy2) Education3) Religious4) Health and recreation5) Political control6) Physical Protection7) Social8) Cultural.

Functions of family

1. Satisfaction of biological needs2. Psychological satisfaction3. Economic co-operation4. Maintaining the morality5. Giving legitimacy to the children6. Full feel the emotional needs7. Social, Religious and cultural recognitions for sexual mati.

Types of family A. Based on size and structure

family are three types:

1. Nuclear Family

2. Joint Family

3. Extended Family

Nuclear Family Family consists of a mother, father,

and their biological or adoptive descendants.

Joint Family The social unit consisting of several

generations of kindred living together under the same roof or in a joining compound.

Extended FamilyAn extended family is two or more adults

from different generations of a family, who share a household. It consists of

more than parents and children

B. Based on blood relation family is two types:

1. Family of orientation. 2. Family of procreation.

C. Based on Marriage: 1. Monogamy. 2. Polygamy.

D. Based on rules of marriage: 1. Endogamous. 2. Exogamous.

E. Based in system of discount family are four types:

1. Patrilineal family.2. Matrilineal family.3. Ambitineal family.4. Bilateral family.

F. Based on the nature of authority or succession:

1. Patrical family.2. Matrical family.

G. Based on residence practices: 1. Patrilocal family / Birilocal

family2. Matrilocal family / Uxorilocal3. Biolocal family4. Avunculocal family5. Neolocal family6. Matri-patrilocal family.

Relation Between Family institution and others.

Religion

Religion affects family systems in numerous ways,

1 premarital counseling,

2 staging of marital and baptismal rites-of-passage,

3 prescribing moralities of procreation and definitions of gender roles

EconomicEconomic conditions effect family

living style.

Survival of a family depends upon economic conditions

Educational

Changes in family institution

Society has stopped 1.respecting the family and started

respecting the "all for me" syndrome.

2.Being married and raising a family is hard. Most media looks down at it because of that.

3.It's easier to stay single, pursue whomever you want to pursue, blow your money on wants instead of needs.

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