Answer the following :

What is a social institution?

Social institutions refers to the whole of roles, status, moral values, and functions catering to the social needs of humans. It has organized beliefs, practices and activity systems. It is the socially approved social structure that is devised to fulfill the desires of humans.

According to Summer and Keller, “Like living beings that have organs and cells, societies also have customs and institutions. A social institution is a permanent structure that fulfills the desires of human beings”.

According to Maciver and Page, “Social Institutions are the structure devised to fulfill the desires of a particular social group”

The different examples of social institutions are state, family, and marriage.