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Q2 Week 2 Assessing Political and Social Institutions

The document identifies and classifies various political and social institutions. Political institutions identified include political parties, legal courts, government institutions, congress, and the three branches of government - executive, legislative, and judicial. Social institutions identified include family, education, religion, community, and tribe. The document explains that political institutions create, enforce, and apply laws, mediate conflict, make policies regarding the economy and social systems, and provide representation. Social institutions are systems of enduring behavioral and relationship patterns that order society through norms.

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Q2 Week 2 Assessing Political and Social Institutions

The document identifies and classifies various political and social institutions. Political institutions identified include political parties, legal courts, government institutions, congress, and the three branches of government - executive, legislative, and judicial. Social institutions identified include family, education, religion, community, and tribe. The document explains that political institutions create, enforce, and apply laws, mediate conflict, make policies regarding the economy and social systems, and provide representation. Social institutions are systems of enduring behavioral and relationship patterns that order society through norms.

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ASSESSING POLITICAL

AND SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Identify each item as
“Political” or “Social
Institution.”
Political parties
POLITICAL
Legal
Courts
POLITICAL
Government
Institutions
POLITICAL
Family
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Trade Unions
POLITICAL
Congress
POLITICAL
Education
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Religion
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Community
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Tribe
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Political institutions are organizations
which create, enforce, and apply laws.
They often mediate conflict, make
(governmental) policies with regards to
the economy and social systems, and
otherwise provide representation for the
populous.
WHAT ARE THE
THREE BRANCHES
OF THE
GOVERNMENT?
What is the difference
between political structures
and political institutions?
POLITICAL
STRUCTURES are specific.
It pertains to the executive
branch of government
EXECUTIVE
BRANCH is composed
of President and the
Vice President
POLITICAL
INSTITUTIONS are
generic, and it pertains
to legislative branch
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH which
comprises Senate with 24
members and House Of
Representatives not more than 250
members including party list
representative
THE JUDICIAL BRANCH
hold the power to settle the
controversies involving the
rights that are legally
demandable and enforceable.
Democracy works well
when its political
institutions perform
functions assigned to them.
The Constitution of any
country lays down basic rules
on the powers and functions of
each institution.
1987 Constitution of the Republic of
the Philippines
The basic principles and laws of a
nation, state or social group that
determine the powers and duties of the
government and guarantee certain
rights to the people in it.
PREAMBLE
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of
Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane
society, and establish a Government that shall embody
our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good,
conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to
ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of
independence and democracy under the rule of law and
a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and
peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.
IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONS
• Institutions are important in a democratic
government because they ensure that the system
runs according to the rule of law and not
according to whims and fancies of a ruler.
• It ensures justice and fairness in the system as the
powers and jurisdiction of every institutions is
clearly defined by the constitution.
Social institutions are systems of
behavioral and relationship patterns that are
densely interwoven and enduring, and
function across an entire society.

•They order and structure the behavior of


individuals by means of their normative
character
Family is very important in
both from social and legal
viewpoints. A family creates a
stable and often unbreakable
relationship.

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