Institution

The institutions are mechanisms of social order and cooperation that steer the behavior of a group of individuals (that can be reduced or to agree with a whole company). The institutions extend the human lives and intentions when identifying itself with the permanence of a social intention, and steer the cooperative human behavior by means of the processing and implantation of rules.

The term institution is commonly applied to the rules of conduct and customs considered important for a company, like the particular formal organizations of government and public service. Like structures and mechanisms of social order in the human species, the institutions are one of the main objects of study in social sciences, like sociology, political science and economy. The institutions are a subject of central study for the law, the formal regime for the processing and implantation of rules. The creation and evolution of the institutions are an main issue for history, and one of its main sections is the history of the institutions. The institucionalismo is a particular approach or tendency of some of these social sciences.

Derivative of the etimológico origin of institutio (in Latin education), an institution is an establishment or institution that a social contribution of educative and cultural type realizes, like the institutes of education or investigation or the museums. From the same origin they come instruction, instructor and governess.

The term institution does not have why to be a physical place. An institution is, for example, leading an automobile by the right in certain countries. Also the concept can be extended to designate to a person of special consideration, veneration and respect: for example Miguel Delibes is an institution in the Spanish culture, or Chavela Vargas is an institution in the Latin song. There are many degrees of institutions, formal and informal. The study of these institutions is of high quality to understand many political, economic behaviors, etc.

Characteristics of an institution

“It is the permanent consolidation uniform and systematics of uses conducts and ideas with means and instruments that assure their control and the fulfillment their social function”

Pablo Lucas Verdú

This concept, that responds to pedagogical criteria, perhaps is accepted to describe to an institution and its operation; him the elements are come off characterize that it.

He is Permanent. The institution remains, and lasts in the time beyond the founding wills established that it, because it is always recruiting new wills to continue his aims. For example: The steered governors and of a State change incessantly, but the State as institution remains.

The Institution uniforms conducts. It owns directives that are followed by their adherents, since to fulfill his aims, it needs ideals, values and norms that lead to their members for it. For example: The Political Parties own an ideology that is accepted by its adherents.

It persecutes an Aim. Aspect more medullary and what allows that an institution exists, is the Aim for which has been created. The aim that it persecutes, is the Social Function that is called to realize. Social function that is as multiple as social needs exists; they are already economic, political, military, religious, etc.

It requires Instruments to realize its aims. These instruments or tools, can be material like the tangible building of an organization or its objects that it owns. They can be ideal like for example, the norms of an organization. And also they can be personal, as the holders of the organs of the organization, that are called to formulate the will of the institution.

Classification

Institutions Norms

Also calls Institutions things, or institutions mechanisms; they consist of ideal components of an organization, like for example a Regulation, Code, or a Constitution. All of them, with the character of permanent, because they continue existing although the creative wills of these organizations have passed away.

Political institutions

They are those that talk about the political Company, and which they regulate the structure and organs of the Government of the State. According to the criterion appeared by UNESCO in 1948, referring one to the objects of study of Political Science, the political institutions have report with the following concepts:

• a) Constitution
• b) Central government
• c) Regional and Local government
• d) Public administration
• e) Social and economic functions of the State
• f) Compared Political institutions

It is also seen

Wikcionario

• Wikcionario has an entrance on institution.
• Social institution
• Economic actor
• Organization
• History of the institutions
• Spanish institutions of the Old Regime
• Old Regime in France
• History of the institutions in seniority

References

Notes

1. ↑ Lucas Verdú, Pablo: Principles of Political Sciences, Volume II, page 125.
2. ↑ Hernán Political Guaíta Oil mill, Institutions, Publication Fund of the University of Conception