Sociology - the family institution

1. Subject : Sociology Topic: Family Institution

2. Social institutions Institutions are the structures and mechanisms of social order. Cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human collectivity. Institutions include the family, religion, peer group, economic systems, legal systems, penal systems, language, and the media

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

4. The family Family is a micro unit of social system. Family is an institute of social system. Family is a key of social system. An institution is a part of social system

5. Definition 1 Ember and Ember A Family is a social and economic unit consisting minimally of one or more parents and their children. 2 Mardock A family is a social group characterized by common residence, economics co-operation and reproduction- 3 Robert Lowie “Family is a group based on material relation rights and duties and parenthood, common habitations and reciprocal relation between parents and children.

6. Some common features of family 1. A matting relationship (mating) 2. Form of marriage according to which the mating relation is established and maintained. 3. System of nomenclature and economic system or group having duties and oblige. 4. A common habitation of home or house hold

7. Functions of family: There are two types of general functions of family institution. Essential functions. Non-essential functions

8. Essential functions. 1) Sexual. 2) Reproduction and maintain of the children. 3) Placement. 4) Socialization.

9. Non-essential functions 1) Economy 2) Education 3) Religious 4) Health and recreation 5) Political control 6) Physical Protection 7) Social 8) Cultural.

10. Functions of family 1. Satisfaction of biological needs 2. Psychological satisfaction 3. Economic co-operation 4. Maintaining the morality 5. Giving legitimacy to the children 6. Full feel the emotional needs 7. Social, Religious and cultural recognitions for sexual mati .

11. Types of family A. Based on size and structure family are three types: 1. Nuclear Family 2. Joint Family 3. Extended Family

12. Nuclear Family Family consists of a mother, father, and their biological or adoptive descendants. Joint Family The social unit consisting of several generations of kindred living together under the same roof or in a joining compound. Extended Family An extended family is two or more adults from different generations of a family, who share a household. It consists of more than parents and children

13. B. Based on blood relation family is two types : 1. Family of orientation. 2. Family of procreation. C. Based on Marriage : 1. Monogamy. 2. Polygamy. D. Based on rules of marriage: 1. Endogamous. 2. Exogamous.

14. E. Based in system of discount family are four types: 1. Patrilineal family. 2. Matrilineal family. 3. Ambitineal family. 4. Bilateral family. F. Based on the nature of authority or succession : 1. Patrical family. 2. Matrical family.

15. G. Based on residence practices: 1. Patrilocal family / Birilocal family 2. Matrilocal family / Uxorilocal 3. Biolocal family 4. Avunculocal family 5. Neolocal family 6. Matri-patrilocal family.

16. Relation Between Family institution and others.

17. Religion Religion affects family systems in numerous ways, 1 premarital counseling, 2 staging of marital and baptismal rites-of-passage, 3 prescribing moralities of procreation and definitions of gender roles

18. Economic Economic conditions effect family living style. Survival of a family depends upon economic conditions

19. Educational

20. Changes in family institution Society has stopped 1.respecting the family and started respecting the "all for me" syndrome. 2.Being married and raising a family is hard. Most media looks down at it because of that. 3.It's easier to stay single, pursue whomever you want to pursue, blow your money on wants instead of needs.

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