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'''Institutions''' are [[structures]] and [[mechanisms]] of social order and [[cooperation]] governing the [[behavior]] of a set of [[individuals]] within a given [[human]] [[collectivity]]. Institutions are identified with a social [[purpose]] and permanence, [[transcending]] [[individual]] human lives and [[intentions]], and with the making and enforcing of rules governing cooperative human behavior. The term "institution" is commonly applied to [[customs]] and [[behavior]] [[patterns]] important to a [[society]], as well as to particular [[formal]] [[organizations]] of government and public [[service]]. As structures and mechanisms of social order among humans, institutions are one of the principal objects of [[study]] in the [[social sciences]], including [[sociology]], [[political science]], and [[economics]]. Institutions are a central concern for [[law]], the [[formal]] [[mechanism]] for political rule-making and enforcement. The [[creation]] and [[evolution]] of institutions is a primary [[topic]] for [[history]].
'''Institutions''' are [[structures]] and [[mechanisms]] of social order and [[cooperation]] governing the [[behavior]] of a set of [[individuals]] within a given [[human]] [[collectivity]]. Institutions are identified with a social [[purpose]] and permanence, [[transcending]] [[individual]] human lives and [[intentions]], and with the making and enforcing of rules governing cooperative human behavior. The term "institution" is commonly applied to [[customs]] and [[behavior]] [[patterns]] important to a [[society]], as well as to particular [[formal]] [[organizations]] of government and public [[service]]. As structures and mechanisms of social order among humans, institutions are one of the principal objects of [[study]] in the [[social sciences]], including [[sociology]], [[political science]], and [[economics]]. Institutions are a central concern for [[law]], the [[formal]] [[mechanism]] for political rule-making and enforcement. The [[creation]] and [[evolution]] of institutions is a primary [[topic]] for [[history]].
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69:1.2 [[Human]] [[institutions]] are of three general classes:
*1. 69:1.3 ''The institutions of self-maintenance''. These institutions [[embrace]] those [[practices]] growing out of [[food]] [[hunger]] and its associated [[instincts]] of self-preservation. They include [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry industry], [[property]], [[war]] for [[Profit|gain]], and all the regulative [[machine]]ry of [[society]]. Sooner or later the [[fear]] [[instinct]] fosters the [[establishment]] of these [[institutions]] of [[survival]] by means of [[taboo]], [[convention]], and [[religious]] [[sanction]]. But [[fear]], [[ignorance]], and [[superstition]] have played a prominent part in the early [[origin]] and subsequent [[development]] of all human [[institutions]].
*2. 69:1.4 ''The institutions of self-perpetuation''. These are the [[establishment]]s of [[society]] growing out of [[sex]] [[hunger]], [[maternal]] [[instinct]], and the higher tender [[emotions]] of the [[races]]. They [[embrace]] the [[social]] safeguards of the [[home]] and the school, of [[family]] life, [[education]], [[ethics]], and [[religion]]. They include [[marriage]] [[customs]], [[war]] for [[defense]], and [[home]] building.
*3. 69:1.5 ''The institutions of self-gratification''. These are the [[practices]] growing out of [[vanity]] proclivities and [[pride]] [[emotions]]; and they [[embrace]] [[customs]] in [[dress]] and [[personal]] adornment, [[social]] usages, [[war]] for [[glory]], [[dancing]], amusement, [[games]], and other phases of sensual gratification. But [[civilization]] has never evolved distinctive institutions of [[self-gratification]].
69:1.6 These [[three]] [[groups]] of [[social]] [[practices]] are [[intimately]] interrelated and minutely [[interdependent]] the one upon the other. On [[Urantia]] they [[represent]] a [[complex]] [[organization]] which [[functions]] as a single [[social]] [[mechanism]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_68_-_The_Dawn_of_Civilization#68:2._FACTORS_IN_SOCIAL_PROGRESSION]
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