LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.
- Marriage, family, and kinship
- Economy
- Polity
- Religion
- Education
- Customs and law
- Social stratification
- Caste and class
- Gender
- Sexuality and disability
- Race, tribe and ethnicity
- Social change and processes
- Modernisation and development
- Social transformation and globalisation
- Social mobility
INTRODUCTION
A social institution is an interrelated system of social roles and social norms, organized around the satisfaction of an important social need or social function. Social Institutions are organized patterns of beliefs and behaviour that are centered on basic social ...
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