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Institutionalism
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Learning
Competency
Examine the constitutive nature of informal and
formal institutions and their actors and how it
constrains social behavior (HUMSS_DIS 11-IVb-7).
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Learning
Objectives
● Interpret personal and social experiences
using relevant approaches in the social
sciences.
● Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
the approach.
● Define institutionalism as a lens for students
to understand society.
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The Shape of Our Lives
Explore
Answer the following questions in your
notebook.
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Identify a commonly-held belief that has greatly
influenced your life. How has this belief shaped your
decisions?
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Identify a rule in school or a law by the government.
How do you think this rule or law has affected
society?
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Which rule or law in
any institution should
be implemented in an
ideal society? Explain
your answer.
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When discussing norms,
laws, and rules in
society...
● Which benefits
society the most?
● Which should be
updated or changed?
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Essential
Question
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Institutionalism
Definition of Institutions
● Institutions are:
○ organizations
○ other formal social structures
that govern a field of action
such as education (Rojas 2018)
● Understanding society through
institutions is called
institutionalism.
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Institutionalism
Institutions
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Institutionalism
Institutions and the Individual
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To shape our institutions
toward social change,
we must understand how
our institutions behave.
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Institutionalism
Institutions and Tradition
● habits
● customs
● conventions
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Institutionalism
Habits
● These are repeated actions that
become recognized by an
individual.
● These actions, when repeated
consistently over a period of
time, become a part of one’s
identity.
Habits, such as exercise, are
cultivated into daily routines. ● e.g., exercising every morning,
allocating study time
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Institutionalism
Customs
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Institutionalism
Conventions
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Institutionalism
Authority Figures
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Institutionalism
More than Habits, Customs,
and Conventions
● informal institutions
○ widely implied
understandings of how to
behave in society
○ no explicit law or doctrine but
still generally followed
Showing utang na loob by taking
care of one’s parents when they
grow older is common in Filipinos.
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Institutionalism
Informal Institutions in Society
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How can we apply
institutionalism in
today’s society?
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Institutionalism
Religion as an Institution
● religious conventions
○ Ten Commandments
○ Koran
● religious customs
○ doing the sign of the cross
when passing by a church
○ praying toward the direction
The Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia,
of the Kaaba in Mecca is the most sacred site in Islam.
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Institutionalism
Family as an Institution
Familial customs:
○ pagmamano as an honoring
gesture to elders
○ eating together to cultivate a
sense of community
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Institutionalism
● Generally-held principles in
society become ingrained into
various laws.
● These principles become
institutionalized in society
through habits, customs, and
conventions (e.g., laws).
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Institutionalism
On Institutionalism
● inter-institutional relations
○ e.g., Labor rights (law) protect
labor conditions (economy).
● institutions and the individual
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Institutionalism
On Institutionalism
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Institutionalism
Institutionalism and Society
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● Institutionalism is the study of the origins, effects,
Wrap- and potential for the reform of institutions.
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● In analyzing a certain social phenomenon,
Wrap- institutionalism offers three key points:
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Challenge
Yourself It is said that institutions bear within
themselves the promise of deep-seated social
control while at the same time, the promise of
human liberation. How can social institutions
contribute to human liberation?
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Photo Credit
Slide 30: Core Value by Dnacario is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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