Social Institutions

• 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.