### social organization:

Institution
* All institutions are vulnerable to catastrophic loss due to earthquakes, floods, or fires
  - have libraries, computers, educational resource centers, and photocopying
* Many institutions are actually interested in people who have consciences
  - celebrate holidays and different times of the year with special events
* Many institutions have policies that limit maximum amount of potassium that can be given per hour
  - well-established policies that recognize the value of librarians
  - plan to double or triple the number of rodents they study
  - use information technology for efficiency and effectiveness
* Most institutions change most productively through generational change
  - estimate risk in the currency that they use for accounting
  - exist to service a central bureaucracy
* Some institutions actually feed the diet while still frozen allowing tigers to eat as it thaws
  - do have policies that make new parents happy
  - employ electrical engineers
  - even have honor codes
* Some institutions have clubs and organizations just for study abroaders
  - international dormitories to provide a cross-cultural experience
  - house important herbaria and natural history museums
  - run out of financial aid
* adopt policy.
* always have a history, of which thev are the products
  - they are the products
* are customs
  - dynamic, finite entities
  - establishments
  - formal and informal ways of organizing human behavior
  - like formadehyde, preserving things with no change
  - rules and practices embedded in structures of meaning and resources
  - slow to change because change scares individuals
  - social arrangements
  - the means by which policy decisions are made effective
* can behave in ways that are inherently or overtly racist.
* consist of formal or informal constraints, which constrain and guide human behaviour.
* determine the environment in which markets operate.
* develop strategies.
* evolve in market economies to help individuals and groups accomplish their goals.
* face concern.
* focus on issues.
* have brains as well as brawn
  - entry requirements
  - responsibility
  - types
  - values, whole societies have values
* help establish and maintain social order
* include departments
  - transportation departments
* inhibit growth when the organization is treated as an end in itself.
* is an organization
  - the basis for civilization
  - used throughout to denote any formal place of learning
* make choices
  - differences
  - rational choices
* may have interest.
* offer development opportunity
  - services
* play an important role in the lives of individuals and societies
  - critical roles
  - important roles
* produce growth.
* provide assistance
  - details
  - development assistance
* provide economic assistance
  - full services
* providing religious education include madrasehs and maktabs.
* recognize distinction.
* report overall success
* represent established arrangements in society and established ways of doing things.
* serve customers.
* show growth.
* suffer when power is concentrated for too long.
* survive over time by adapting to meet new circumstances.
* tend to be evaluated solely in terms of their economic benefits
  - support the ideology of a society
* vary in how they accommodate the needs of employed parents.

### social organization | institution:

Academic institution
* are both producers and consumers of scholarly publishing
  - hotbeds of ideas, seedbeds of revolution
  - under the control of religious zealots
* exist for the transmission of knowledge and the pursuit of truth.
* tend to be bureaucratic organizations.

Brokerage
* are business.
* is an institution
* maintains the rates and expenses earned and paid towards a person or equipment.
* means the business or occupation of a real estate broker.

Brokerage firm
* are financial institutions.
* focus on individual stocks and bonds.