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Definition
A social institution is a relatively durable arrangement of roles, rules, and practices that organizes recurring social activity.
An accepted stipulated definition establishes local encyclopedia usage; it is not empirical proof.
Accepted claims and scope
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A social institution is a relatively durable arrangement of roles, rules, and practices that organizes recurring social activity.
Scope: Declared first-party usage for this encyclopedia entry; not a universal or empirical assertion.
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This entry concerns an organized social arrangement and does not use institution solely to mean a named organization or building.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
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An institution is distinguished from a particular organization that may participate in it.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
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Durability does not imply permanence or universal agreement.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
Disambiguation
This entry concerns an organized social arrangement and does not use institution solely to mean a named organization or building.
Editorial distinctions
An institution is distinguished from a particular organization that may participate in it.
Durability does not imply permanence or universal agreement.
Record-level original-text rights
Original-text rights attestation: Attested. The submitted definition, disambiguation, distinctions, and claim wording are original first-party editorial text; no external prose has been copied or adapted.
Source provenance and rights
No independently verified external source is asserted for the stipulative core.
Related atlas concepts โ editorial navigation
Atlas relations are editorial navigation links, not validated equivalence or entailment.
related: Democracy (atlas.concept.democracy)
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