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The document discusses the family as a social institution. It describes the family as humankind's most basic and oldest social institution, established primarily to ensure the continuity of society and regulate sexual behaviors. The document outlines various functions of the family, including the regulation of sexual behavior, reproduction, biological maintenance, socialization, care and protection, social placement or group status, and social control. It also discusses norms on partner selection, forms of marriage, bases for choosing a spouse, patterns of family organization related to membership, descent, residence and authority, and sociological theories on the family including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
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Social Institutions - 1. the Family and Intimate Relationships
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Social Institutions - 1. the Family and Intimate Relationships
The document discusses the family as a social institution. It describes the family as humankind's most basic and oldest social institution, established primarily to ensure the continuity of society and regulate sexual behaviors. The document outlines various functions of the family, including the regulation of sexual behavior, reproduction, biological maintenance, socialization, care and protection, social placement or group status, and social control. It also discusses norms on partner selection, forms of marriage, bases for choosing a spouse, patterns of family organization related to membership, descent, residence and authority, and sociological theories on the family including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
The document discusses the family as a social institution. It describes the family as humankind's most basic and oldest social institution, established primarily to ensure the continuity of society and regulate sexual behaviors. The document outlines various functions of the family, including the regulation of sexual behavior, reproduction, biological maintenance, socialization, care and protection, social placement or group status, and social control. It also discusses norms on partner selection, forms of marriage, bases for choosing a spouse, patterns of family organization related to membership, descent, residence and authority, and sociological theories on the family including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
Social Institutions - Defined A social institution is an important human organization in a culture group that helps a society to survive. Social Institutions
Alternative Definitions
A social institution consists of a
group of people who have come together for a common purpose. These institutions are a part of the social order of society and they govern the behavior and expectations of individuals. Social Institutions
Alternative Definitions
Structures in society manifested
as groups of social positions and associated social relations, invested with legitimate authority, that serve to maintain and carry out essential social functions and perpetuate social order. The Family
Humankinds most basic and oldest social
institution is the family. It is primarily established to ensure the continuity of society and to regulate the sexual behaviours of its Functions of the Family
1. Regulation of sexual behavior
2. Reproduction 3. Biological maintenance 4. Socialization 5. Care and protection function 6. Social placement or group status 7. Social control Norms on Selection of Partners 1. Endogamy select within own group 2. Exogany select outside ones group 3. Sororate widower should marry the sister or nearest kin of deceased wife 4. Levirate widow should marry the brother or nearest kin of the deceased husband Forms of Marriage 1. Monogamy 2. Polygamy a. Polygyny 1 husband 2+ wives (ex. muslims) b. Polyandry 1 wife 2+ husbands (ex. hindu todas) c. Group marriage 2+ husbands and 2+ wives Basis on Choosing Spouse 1. Parental Selection or Arranged Marriage 2. Romantic Patterns of Family Organization A. Membership B. Descent C. Residence D. Authority A. Membership
Nuclear Family Extended
(Conjugal) Family a. Family of (Consanguineal) Orientation B. Descent 1. Patrilineal Descent kinship traced through fathers family 2. Matrilineal Descent kinship traced through mothers family 3. Bilateral Descent kinship traced through both parents C. Residence 1. Patrilocal lives with or near husbands family 2. Matrilocal lives with or near wifes family 3. Neolocal establishes new home 4. Bilocal - choice of either husband or wifes family D. Authority 1. Patriarchy oldest male; usually the father 2. Matriarchy mother or mothers kin 3. Equalitarian or egalitarian equal authority 4. Matricentric mother has authority due to absence of father Sociological Theories on Family Functionalis Conflict Symbolic Interaction t If a society is to Family conflict A marriage survive and maintain involves negotiating undergoes a itself, certain and bargaining rather continuous process of essential functions than fighting. This definition or must be performed. implies that some redefinition. Marital The family is matters are in dispute and family life responsible for the and the parties are consists of an ongoing following functions: attempting to reach a process of attributing regulation of sexual collective agreement. meaning to situations behavior, The family is also a and fashioning reproduction, system for regulating relationships based biological conflict to enjoy the on these maintenance, process of give and relationships. socialization, care and take. Family Thank you.