venerdì 18 settembre 2015

FAMILY INSTITUTION SOCIOLOGY


The institution of family has three important functions:
1.     To provide for the rearing of children
2.     To provide a sense of identity or belonging among its members
3.     To transmit culture between generations

In Western societies, we tend to think of a family as consisting of a mother, father, and children living under one roof: a nuclear family.




Family is social institution of society.
Some social thinkers called family as a primary group. 
A person is related to a family right from his birth up to his death a family participate in the joys and sorrow of a person. 
Family plays an important role in personality development of a child. 
Family institution is present in all human communities. 
Person in family have blood relation. 
In the family there are sexual relation in men and women. 
All members of this institution participate in a financial process and responsibility.
When the children grow they get married and they form own independent family.
The concept of the family is observed in all human group.
Family institution plays a very important role in giving stability to society.
As family is a primary social institution of a society, existence of every social institution is depends on the functions carried out by that social institution. 
Children have to go to school for formal education but informal education is given by family institute. 
The family gives information about culture and helps to balanced personality development. Family carries out social regulations by developing personality.
In traditional as well as modern society this functions are of family institution.

The sociology of the family is the study of the family from a sociological point of view. Most studies focus on the social development of the family, starting from analyzing social classes, genres and ethnic groups affected by the phenomenon.

The indicators used are the number of children in the family, their age, the ethnic backgrounds of the components, the level and economic mobility of the family unit, the educational level; they allow to study the interactions between the family and the culture and society, and between them and the family.

The sociology of the family also studied the differences in the various forms of the family in contemporary society in relation to ideology, to gender differences and to state policies regarding the institution of marriage.

From a sociological perspective, the family is that specific social relationship that binds the couple to their children, that intersects the relations between the sexes with the relations between the generations. Although these relationships of vital world, bordering a private sphere, the family has important functions for the company, and therefore has a public value. Familial forms have historically been highly variable, however, no society has ever been able to destroy the family. When he tried to do it, that society has disappeared, or had to give back space to the family. The fundamental reason is that the family is a social structure, some speak of a social genome of the family who has the task of humanizing the people by implementing the transition from nature to culture

Here, we com to know that family is a major social institution of society.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_the_family
http://www.pobronson.com/factbook/pages/105.html

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