1. When the phrase social institution comes up very
few people think of the word family. Social intuitions are like the cream to
the crop. They not only serve as a medium but also carry out functions and form
behaviors. Social institutions are the structures we have in the world we live in today. Institutions vary widely across the world. It is what makes up our
world and the behaviors we accept, don’t accept, what we need, and what we
want. Now how does family relate to social institution? Family institution is
like the chief of importance in our society. Nothing goes farther back in time
than family. Family is there through the good, the bad, and the ugly. Every
person is somehow shaped by their family. No matter where you are or what
you’re doing, family is everywhere. "Family as Social
Institution." Family as Social Institution. N.p., 18 Sept. 2015.
Web. 20 Sept. 2015.
2. Family to me is something that comes naturally. Say your family is hurt, you naturally hurt with them. It is something that happens so easily that we hardly even notice. You go day by day living a life formed to your family's morals or what they do and do not believe in. It would be hard to argue that family is not one of our main social institutions. From the day we are born our family has controlled what we do. Good, bad, or indifference, we listen to what our parents and siblings have to say the majority of the time. It is even hard to imagine a world without families. Who would you go to for advice, structure, comfort, or even stability? Our world as we know it would be chaos. Say you go over to your friends house for the night. Her family structure is going to be different from your family structure. You may even have to follow different rules and guidelines. What is normal for your friend might be out of the norm for you. Every family is different. But what is the same is that every society has family and without family everything would fall apart. Life is constantly changing and everyone needs at least one thing they can count on at the end of every day. For me, that is family.
