Institution type sorts social institutions by the specific organizational form they take. Wikipedia notes anthropologists classify family organizations as "matrifocal... patrifocal... conjugal... avuncular... or extended," several distinct forms doing a similar underlying job. This dimension groups institutions that share the same organizational type.
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1. Wikipedia: Institution
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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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