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 .

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.

21. Thanks 