Family as a Social Institution

Social institution is

• relatively larger group composed of impersonal and goal-oriented relationships, which are often temporary.

• a group held together by relationships formed by family and environmental associations, regarded as basic to social life and culture

• system of social roles and social norms, organized around the satisfaction of an important social need or social function.

When the father dies all the belongings go to his wife it is the following pattern of inheritance ...

• matrilineal

• patrilineal

• matrilocal

• matriarchy

Identify the structure of family:

Women in India have few freedoms even in their homes, hold an unequal and inferior status in society, and are subject to the rule of male heads of household (their fathers in their childhoods and their husbands after marriage).

• Patriarchy

• Matriarchy

• Egalitarian

• Patrilineal

When after marriage husband and wife decided to rent apartments instead of moving in with parents it is called

• patrilocal

• neolocal

• matrilocal

• bilineal

There are two types of families. Extended and nuclear.

• True

• False