Institutions
(Lat. instituere, to cause to stand)
(a) Establishments. Relatively permanent group behavior patterns or established social practices, as distinguished from temporary practices or patterns.
(b) Socially established behavior patterns, authoritatively or legally enforced, as distinguished from Folkways which are merely taken-for-granted common but uncompelled ways of behavior and as distinguished from ”mores” which are enforced by group opinion rather than by legally authorized meant. — A.J.B.