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55. DEFINITION OF A SOCIAL INSTITUTION
Word "institute" comes from lat. institutum, which means "establishment", "institution", "organization".
Social institutions are an integral part of the social structure, one of the main categories of sociological analysis of society.
The concept of a social institution was borrowed by the social sciences from jurisprudence, so it largely retains the semantic coloring associated with the norms of the regulatory activity of a person and society.
But the institutional aspect in social science has acquired a broader interpretation, which makes it possible to approach these cultural phenomena from the side of their social significance.
This deepened the understanding of the essence of social institutions, made it possible to look at them as the pillars on which society rests.
The term "institution" has many meanings. In science, there are many versions and approaches to the interpretation of this concept, which does not allow us to give an unambiguous definition of this category.
However, some key points in its understanding can be identified.
Most often, a social institution is understood as some more or less stable set of formal and informal rules, principles, and guidelines that regulate various areas of human activity and organize them into a single system.
With the help of this category, a certain community of people performing certain roles, organized by means of norms and goals, is designated.
Often, speaking of social institutions, they mean a system of institutions through which one or another aspect of human activity is legalized, ordered, organized in a society where certain people are empowered to perform certain functions.
This concept is used in a narrow sense (as the name of educational institutions) and in a broad sense.
In the broadest sense, social institutions are understood as specific socio-cultural formations that ensure the relative stability of ties and relations within the social organization of society, some historically determined ways of organizing and regulating various forms of social (including cultural) activities.
Social institutions arose in the course of the development of human society, the social division of labor, the formation of certain types and forms of social relations.
Society how a complex set of economic, political, legal, moral, ethical, aesthetic, ritual and other relations is institutionalized in the respective entities.
They also objectify culture as a way of human activity.
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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