Definitions [3]
Definition of Social Institutions:
Horton and Hunt : An institution is an organized system of relationships which embodies certain common rules and procedures and meets certain basic needs of the society.
E. S. Bogardus : A social institution is a structure of society that is organized to meet the needs of people chiefly through well established procedures.
H. E. Barnes : Social institutions are the social structures and machinery through which human society organizes, directs and executes the multi-farious activities required for human needs.
Mac Iver: “Family is a group defined by a sex relationship sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the protection and upbringing of children”.
Burgess and Locke: “Family is a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood or adoption; consisting of a single household, interacting and inter-communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister creating a common culture”.
Webster dictionary: “Family is a group of people related by blood or marriage”.
Horton and Hunt: “Marriage is the approved social pattern whereby two or more persons establish a family.”
Robert Lowie: “Marriage is a relatively permanent bond between permissible mates.”
Webster Dictionary: “Marriage is the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.”
Concepts [14]
- Concept of Social Institutions
- Characteristics of Social Institutions
- Concept of Family
- Functions of Family
- Forms of Family
- Twenty-first Century Families
- Concept of Marriage
- Forms of Marriage
- Family, Marriage and Kinship
- Economy and Work
- Concept of Education
- Types of Education
- Importance of Education
- Education and Social Division
