Pickier still...my impression of the word institution is that it relates
more to the establishment: i.e., a school, a church, a hospital, a
reformatory. A family is a social unit, an institution is a social
organisation.
Cheers to you...(a bar )
Jackie
Thomas Petzinger Jr. wrote:
> >The University and the Church are mankind's most enduring
> institutions.
>
> Not to be picky, but I suspect most anthropologists would argue that
> the
> family is the oldest institution. Following closely on its heels is
> trade,
> which predates religion by many millennia. Universities follow
> religion by
> many further millennia.
>
> cheers,
> tom
>
> Thomas Petzinger Jr.
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