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Understanding Social Institutions

CBSE · Class 11 · Sociology

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Key Topics to Revise

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1. Social Institutions: Basic Idea and Perspectives

  • An institution works according to rules established or acknowledged by law or custom.
  • Institutions impose constraints on individuals but also provide opportunities.
  • Family and religion are informal social institutions.
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2. Family, Kinship, and Marriage

  • A family is a group of persons directly linked by kin connections whose adult members care for children.
  • Marriage is a socially acknowledged and approved sexual union between two adult individuals.
  • Kinship ties are established through marriage or descent.
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3. Marriage Forms and Rules

  • Monogamy is marriage form based on number of partners.
  • Polygamy is marriage form based on number of partners.
  • Polygyny is a sub-type of polygamy.
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4. Work, Economy, and Industrial Change

  • Work includes paid and unpaid tasks that produce goods and services for human needs.
  • The informal economy includes transactions outside regular employment.
  • In pre-modern societies most people worked in fields or cared for livestock.

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A social institution is a regularThis view sees institutions as responsesThis view sees institutions as workingA family is a groupMarriage is a socially acknowledged

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