Trends, Networks &

Critical Thinking in
the 21st Century
Culture
DEMOCRATIC
INTERVENTIONS
MRS. LESLIE MONICA M. REYES
CONGRESS-is the legislature of the national
government.
COMMUNITY- a total organization of life within a limited
area.
SOCIETY-is a group of individuals involved in persistent
social interaction, or a large social group sharing the
same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the
same political authority and dominant cultural
expectations.
FAMILY- the most natural, simplest and permanent
form of organization.
 POLITICAL AND
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
 LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Identify political and social institutions 01

 MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCY (MELC)

Assess democratic interventions

prevailing in political and social 01
institutions .
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 DEFINITION OF INSTITUTIONS BY VARIOUS
SOCIOLOGISTS
Sumner and Keller institution is a vital
interest or activity that is surrounded by a
cluster of mores and folkways.

Lester F. Ward regarded an institution as

the means for the control and utilization of
the social energy.
 DEFINITION OF INSTITUTIONS BY VARIOUS
SOCIOLOGISTS
L. Thobhouse described institution as the
whole or any part of the established and
recognized apparatus of social life.

Robert Maclver regarded institution as

established forms or conditions of
procedure and characteristic of group
activity.
 INSTITUTION

A society or organization
founded for a religious,
educational, social, or
similar purpose.
 POLITICAL INSTITUTION
Are the organizations in a government that
create, enforce, and apply laws. They often
mediate conflict, make governmental policy
on the economy and social systems, and
otherwise provide representation for the
population.
 POLITICAL INSTITUTION
Political institutions and systems have a
direct impact on the business environment
and activities of a country.

The political system consists of both politics

and government and involves the law,
economy, culture, and other social
concepts.
 The Functions of a Political System

In 1960, Gabriel Abraham

Almond and James Smoot
Coleman gathered three core
functions of a political system,
which include:
 The Functions of a Political System

1. To maintain the integration of society by

determining norms.
2. To adapt and change elements of social,
economic, and religious systems necessary
for achieving collective (political) goals.
3. To protect the integrity of the political
system from outside threats.
 SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Is a complex, integrated set of social norms
organized around the preservation of a
basic societal value.

It is a social collection of individuals who

have relations with one another that make
them interdependent to some significant
degree.
 SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

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 behavior and expectations of
individuals.
 SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Social institutions are systems of behavioral
and relationship patterns that are densely
interwoven and enduring, and function
across an entire society. They order and
structure the behavior of individuals by
means of their normative character.
 FIVE (5) MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
1. Emotional Needs. For satisfaction of
needs like love, affection, hunger, fear, self-
preservation, self-gratification, and fear of
the supernatural.
2. Economic Needs. Satisfies the material
needs of people and for the satisfaction of
basic necessities of food, clothing and
shelter.
 FIVE (5) MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
3. Familial Needs. Establishes the
institution of marriage and family for the
continuation of human species through
structured means.
4. Religious Needs. Deals with man’s
inherent fear of the supernatural. It deals
with his fear through religious prayers and
offerings.
 FIVE (5) MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS

5. Political Needs. Deals with the basic

necessity of governing large group of
people through formalized means of
government and laws.