The social institutions

Social institutions are a collection of different sources of knowledge, information, skills, and values that affect an individual and define how an individual would behave in his or her society. In this sense, family, schools, religion, and economy are considered as institutions to the sociologist. In other words, we tend to look up to our parents, teachers, and care-givers in identifying what is right and what is wrong. Additionally, we as humans prefer to always be part of something bigger. We want to be part of our families, our society, our religion and we want to think of a supreme entity that judges us or at least takes care of us.