Emergence era places a social institution in the historical period when it first took hold. Wikipedia notes that "historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization," a role reaching back long before any written record. Browsing by emergence era shows how old a given institution really is.
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Institutions are a principal object of study in social sciences such as political science, anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter described by Emile Durkheim as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning").
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