Prostitution thus becomes a social institution in the capitalist world, the same as the police, standing armies, the Church, and wage-mastership.
As a social institution, on the other hand, it has a somewhat different meaning: it is a union regulated by custom or law.
Footnote 2: The best definition of marriage as a social institution which I have met with is the following one given by Dr.
It was one of those cases, only too frequent in the history of morals, in which religion is called in to lend its sanction to a social institution agreeable to the leaders of religious opinion.
It is a common opinion that punishment, in this sense of the word, is a social institution of comparatively modern origin, which has sprung from, and gradually superseded, the earlier custom of individual or family revenge.
It is, however, so fundamental a social institution that it is difficult to get far away from it in any argument which deals with social organisation.
It is no longer possible to question this view of the library as a social institution--a means of rendering general service to the widest public.
Personal service and sacrifice are engendered in the care of children; therefore it is that the family without children is not a perfect family, but an abnormality as a social institution.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "social institution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
