Report Sa Psycho
Report Sa Psycho
Report Sa Psycho
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Advanced Higher Education
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INSTITUTION
1. Institution are purposive.
2. They are relatively permanent in their content.
3. Institutions are structured.
4. Institutions are a unified structure.
5. Institutions are necessarily value-laden.
FAMILY
The family is the smallest social institution with the unique function or producing and rearing the
young. It is the basic unit of Philippine society and the educational system.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FILIPINO FAMILY
1. Closely knit and has strong family ties.
2. Has a strong loyalty among members.
3. Individual interest are sacrificed over the welfare of the group.
4. Kinship ties are extended to “compadre” or sponsors.
FUNCTIONOF THE FAMILY
1. Reproduction of the race and rearing the young.
2. Cultural transmission or enculturation.
3. Socialization of the child.
4. Providing affection and a sense of security.
5. Providing the environment for personality development and the growth of self-concept.
6. Providing social status.
KINDS OF FAMILY PATTERNS
According to membership
A. Conjugal or nuclear family - husband ,wife and children
B. Consanguine or extended family – married couple, their parents, siblings, grandparents,
uncles, aunts and cousins.
According to terms of marriage
A. Polyandry - one women married to two or more men.
B. Polygamy – man married to two or more women
C. Cenogamy – two or more men mate with two or more women in group marriage.
According to line of descent
A. Patrilineal – descent is recognized through the father’s line.
B. Matrilineal – descent is recognized through the mother’s line.
C. Bilineal – descent is recognized through both the father’ and mother’s lin
According to place of residence
A. Potrilocal – married couple lives with the parents of the husband
B. Matrilocal – married couple lives with the parents wife
C. Neolocal – married couple maintains a separates household and live by themselves.
According to authority
A. Patriarchal – father is considered the head and plays a dominant role
B. Matriarchal – mother is considered the head and makes the major decisions
C. Equalitarian – both the mother and father share in making decision and are equal in
authority
EDUCATION
Multiple functions of schools
Technical/economic – refers to the contributions of the school to the technical or
economic developments and needs of the individual, the institution, the local community the
society and the international community.
Human/social – refers to the contribution of the school to human development and social
relationships at different levels of society
Political – refers to the contributions of the school to the political development at different
levels of society
Cultural – refers to the contributions of the school to the cultural transmission and
development at different levels of society
Education – refers to the contributions of the school to the development and maintenance
of education at the different levels of society.
Manifest function of education are defined as the open and intended goals or consequences of
activities within an organization or institution.
Socialization
Social control
Social placement
Transmitting culture
Promoting social and political integration
Agent of change
Latent function of education are the hidden, unstated and sometimes unintended consequences of
activities within an organization or institution.
Restricting some activities
Matchmaking and production of social networks
Creation of generation gap
Function of schools by Calderon (1998)
Conservation function
Institution function
Research service function
RELIGION
Religion is the socially defined patterns of beliefs concerning ultimate meaning of life it assumes the
existence of the supernatural.
Characteristics of religion
Beliefs in deity or in a power beyond the individual
A doctrine ( accepted teaching ) of salvation
A code of conduct
The use of sacred stories
Religious rituals ( acts and ceremonies )
Function of religion
Religion serves as a means of social control.
It exerts a greats influence upon personality development
Religion always fear the unknown
Religion explains events or situations which are beyond the comprehension of man
It gives man comfort, strength and hope in times of crisis and despair
Function of religion
It preserves and transmits knowledge, skill, spiritual and cultural values and practices
It serves as an instrument of change
It promotes closeness, love, cooperation, friendliness and helpfulness.
Religion alleviates sufferings from major calamities
It provides hope for a blissful life after death
Churches, sect, and cults
Church tends to be large with inclusive membership in low tension with surrounding society
and tends towards greater intellectual examination and interpretation of the tenants of religion
Sect has a small, exclusive membership, high tension with society. It tends towards the
emotional, mystic, stress faith, feeling, conversion experience, to be “born again”.
Cults the more innovative institutions and formed when people create new religious beliefs
and practices. There are three types: audience cults, clients cults and cult movements.
ECONOMIC INSTITUTION
Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics
o Microeconomics concerned with the specific the economic units of parts that makes an
economic system and the relationship between those parts.
o Macroeconomics concerned with the economy as a whole, or large segments of it.
Basic economic problems
What goods and services to produce and how much?
How to produce the goods and services?
For whom are the goods and services?
GOVERNMENT
The institution which resolves conflicts that are public in nature and involve more than a few people is
called a government. It can be city, provincial, national or even international.
THREE BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT
A. Executive – enforces rules and laws
B. Legislative – makes rules and laws
C. Judicial – interprets rules and laws
Politics and administration
Politics a pattern of human interaction that serves to resolve conflicts between people,
institution and nation.
Administration refers to the aggregate of persons in whose hands the reigns of government
are for the time being.