SOCIAL

INSTITUTIONS
Gerebit, Caren
Lauce, Eunice
Mataya, Glydel
Padua, Jaddie
Serrano , Fate
 SOCIAL INSTITUTION
Groups of persons banded
together for common purposes having
rights, privileges, liabilities, goals, or
objectives distinct and independent
from those of individual members.
 FAMILY
 basic
social unit consisting of parents
and their children, considered as a
group, whether dwelling together or
not
 Functions

 Regulationof sexual behavior

and reproduction- ensures the
continuation of the society

 Protection- provides care and

security to infants and elders
 Socialization and Education-
parents monitor the child’s
behavior and transmit the norms,
values and language of a culture to
the child

 Affection and Companionship-

family is obliged to provide the
emotional needs of its members
 Status Conferral- the family unit
presents the newborn child with
the ascribed status of race,
nationality, citizenship or
ethnicity
 Economic activity- serves as the
basic unit for production, with
kinship ties defining who is
obliged to work together in order
to catch game, grow food or build
shelter
 Kinds of Family or Family
Patterns
I. Membership, Organization, and
Structure Patterns:

A. Nuclear Family- basic unit

of the family is the wife-
husband pair and their
children.
B. Extended Family- nuclear
family plus relatives.
II. Residence Pattern:

A. Neolocal Residence- couple

lives independently from their
parents.

B. Matrilocal Residence- newly

married couple resides with
the wife’s kin.
 C. Patrilocal Residence –newly
married couple resides with
the husband’s kin.

III. Authority Patterns:

A. Patriarchy Or Patriarchal-
male dominance is the
approved norm.
B. Matriarchy or Matriarchal-
female dominance is the
approved norm.

C. Equalitarian – it is one which

spouses are regarded as
equals.
Iv. Descent Patter

A. Bilineal Descent-
equally important.
B. Patrilineal Descent- only
the father’s relatives are
important
C. Matrilineal Descent – only
the mother’s relatives are
significant.
 KINDS OF LOVE

1. Conjugal Love
2. Parental Love
3. Filial Love
4. Fraternal Love
COURTSHIP
Processes or
activities that can
eventually lead to
marriage

DOWRY

 gift turned over by the

groom to the bride’s
parents
 Basic Elements of Love
(R.J. STENBERG)
disclosing personal
Intimacy feelings and
thoughts

Commitment Passion
decision to LOVE sexual
maintain the longing
love and sexual
relationship needs
with the
partner both
now and in the
future
 Styles of Love
(John Lee)

 Ludus- ludic lover views love as a

game, as play, as fun, and refuses
to become independent on any
one person and does not
encourage another’s intimacy

 Eros- Passion and romance

 Pragma- logical and rational
- pragma lover assesses his
partner on the basis of assets and
liabilities

 Mania- intense emotional and sexual

passion but out of control
- The person is possessive and
dependent
 Storge- calm, soothing, non- sexual
love devoid of intense passion

 Agape-selfless and giving,

expecting nothing in return
MARRIAGE
 also called matrimony or wedlock
 permanent union of husband and
wife
 joining of two people in a bond that
putatively lasts until death,
Theories of Mate Selection

 Endogamy- Greek “endon” meaning

within
- Specifies the groups
within which the
spouse must be found
and prohibits marriage
with others
 Exogamy- Greek “exo” meaning
outside
- Requires selection outside
certain groups, usually one’s own
family or certain kin folk
Other Marriage Patterns

 Monogamy- one husband and one

wife

 Polygamy- a person may have more

than one spouse at a time
 Polyandry-one wife and two or
more husbands

 Polygyny-one husband and two or

more wives
RELIGION
 comes from Latin word “Religare”
which means “to bind”
 formalized behavior that is directed
towards sacred - Durkeim
 Dimension of Religious
Behavior
 Belief- statement to which members
of a particular religion adhere

 Rituals- most religious rituals in

our culture focuses on service
conducted at houses of worship
 Functions of Religion

1. SocialSolidarity- religious beliefs

and practices operate jointly to
bond members into an integrated
community

2. Identity-providing answer to the

question “ who am I”
3. Meaning- persons claimed that
religion provides answer to our
questions concerning the
meaning of our relations to
others, of existence, of happiness
and suffering and of good and evil

4. Social Control- religion offer

prescriptions for life in the world
5. Psychological Support- religion
serves as psychological
support during the trying
time of a person’s life

6. Social Change- it can also serve as

a catalyst for social change
 MONOTHEISM,
POLYTHEISM AND
SACRED PHILOSOPHIES
Monotheism- belief in one God
Polytheism- belief in two or more
Gods
Sacred Philosophies- do not
acknowledge the existence of
God/ gods
 Major World Religion
1. Hinduism
2. Buddhism
3. Confucianism
4. Judaism
5. Christianity
6. Islam
Religion in The Philippines

 The Spaniard Colonizers introduced

CATHOLICISM when they came in
1521.
 ISLAM was introduced by the Arab
traders in the 14th century when they
established trade in Mindanao and
Sulu.
 Folk Catholicism and
Official Catholicism

 Official Catholicism –doctrines

and rituals, which are prescribed by
the Church.
 Folk Catholicism –includes the
non-official elements.
 Types Of Religious
Organization
 Church- formal religious
organization that is well
integrated into the larger society.
However, Churches advance
morality in abstract terms, which
enable them to overlook how
specific social arrangements are
inconsistent with their principles.
 Ecclesia
Denomination

 Sect -informal religious

organization that is not well
integrated into the larger society.
-also exalt personal experiences
and emotion, while churches are
more formal rituals. Typically a sect
has broken away from large
denomination in an effort to restore
what members of the sect regard as
the original views of denomination.
 Cult -religious movement that is
highly conventional in terms of
the surrounding society.
- similar to sects but differ
in at least three respects.
1. They generally have not
broken away from a larger
denomination and instead
originate outside the mainstream
religious tradition.
2. They often secretive and do not
proselytize as much.

3. They are at least somewhat

more likely than sects to rely on
charismatic leadership based on
the extraordinary personal
qualities of the cults leader.
Separation of Church and
State

According to 1987 Constitution:

“ARTICLE II SECTION 6: THE
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE SHALL BE INVOILABLE”
The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines
declares: “The separation of Church and
State shall be inviolable” and “no law shall
be made respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof”. This is taken from the first legal
prohibition of the government establishing
a state religion found in the US
Constitution. Many different religious
groups fled to the colonies in North America
to avoid religious persecution, and were not
about to start over the same way again.