Social Institutions

Cards (12)

  • Social Institutions - sets of elements such as belief, rules, practices
  • Institutional Approach - tells as that social institutuins are ordered sets of rules, norms, beliefs, or values that organize human behavior
  • Relational Approach - focuses on social relation rather than rules, norms, or belief
  • Example Of Social Institutions

    • Family
    • Education
    • religion
    • economics
    • goverment
  • Family - group of people who are related by birth, marriage
  • monogamous - one spouse
  • polygamous - more than one spouses
  • economy - institution that addresses questions regarding limited resources of society
  • education - process of learning
  • Religion - belief in God or gods
  • government - institution that deals with the exercise of political power to maintain law and order
  • Social institutions are the basic structures of human societies.