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    The document defines social institutions and lists the basic social institutions: family, religion, government and law, education, and economy and work. It then provides the specific functions of each institution. The family's functions include regulating sexual behavior, providing for new members of society like children, and primary socialization. Religion's functions include explaining natural phenomena, controlling nature, supporting social norms, and socialization. Government and law's functions are establishing norms through laws, enforcing laws, adjudicating conflicts, and protecting society. Education's functions are transmitting culture, preparing for jobs, selecting individuals, and teaching functional skills. The economy and work's functions are producing, distributing, and enabling consumption of goods and services.

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    The document defines social institutions and lists the basic social institutions: family, religion, government and law, education, and economy and work. It then provides the specific functions of each institution. The family's functions include regulating sexual behavior, providing for new members of society like children, and primary socialization. Religion's functions include explaining natural phenomena, controlling nature, supporting social norms, and socialization. Government and law's functions are establishing norms through laws, enforcing laws, adjudicating conflicts, and protecting society. Education's functions are transmitting culture, preparing for jobs, selecting individuals, and teaching functional skills. The economy and work's functions are producing, distributing, and enabling consumption of goods and services.

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    Abiog, Michael Carlo S. Crisostomo, John Kenneth E. Dela Cruz, Mark Gainor P.

    De Jesus, Jobelle Elcarte, Joan Macaspac, Rose Nikko Mangilit, Janine Basic Social Institutions Social Institution

    BEEd III-2 Group II

    A social institution may be defined as an organizational system which functions to satisfy basic social needs by providing an ordered framework linking the individual to the larger culture.

    GENERAL FUCTIONS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Institution Satisfy the Basic Needs of Society. Institution Define Dominant Social Values. "Bill of Rights" Institutions Establish Permanent Patterns of Social Behavior Monogamy Institutions Support Other Institutions."Adultery". Institutions Provide Roles for Individuals. Husband and Wife.

    THE BASIC INSTITUTIONS & THEIR SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS FAMILY o A socially defined set of relationships between at least two people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or, in some definitions, long-standing ties of intimacy. THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY 1. The control and regulation of sexual behavior. 2. To provide for new members of society (children). 3. To provide for the economic and emotional maintenance of individuals. 4. To provide for primary socialization of children.

    RELIGION o A unified system of beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural and to norms about the right way to live that is shared by a group of believers. Sociologists treat religion as a social rather than supernatural phenomenon.

    THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONOF RELIGION 1. Providing solutions for unexplained natural, phenomena. 2. Supplying a means for controlling the natural world. 3. Religion tends to support the normative structure of the society. 4. Furnishing a psychological diversion from unwanted life situations. 5. Sustaining the existing class structure. 6. Religion serves as an instrument of socialization. 7. Religion may both promote and retard social change. 8. Religion may both reduce and encourage conflict in groups.

    GOVERNMENT & LAW o Institutions that pertain to the governance of a society, its formal distribution of authority, its use of force, and its relationships to other societies and political units. The state, an important political institution in modern societies, is the apparatus of governance over a particular territory. THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF GOVERMENT & LAW 1. The Institutionalization of norms (Laws). 2. The enforcement of laws. 3. The adjudication of conflict (Court). 4. Provide for the welfare of members of society. 5. Protection of Society from external threat.

    EDUCATION o A formal process in which knowledge, skills, and values are systematically transmitted from one individual or group to another. THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION 1. Transmitting culture. 2. Preparation for occupational roles 3. Evaluating and selecting competent individuals. 4. Transmitting functional skills for functioning in society.

    ECONOMY & WORK o Sociologists understand the economy as the set of arrangements by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods, services, and other resources.

    SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF ECONOMY 1. Provide methods for the production of goods and services. 2. Provide methods for the distribution of goods and services. 3. Enable societys members to consume goods and services which are produced.

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