Social Institutions: Essays in Cultural Analysis

Abstract: The article analyses ‘social institute’ as a category, which is traditional for sociology; its inter-relation with the notion of ‘culture’ is considered. The author concludes that the notion of culture is primary in relation to the notion of social institute. In its turn, a social institute may be regarded as a form representing culture and a mechanism for realisation of its intrinsic functions.

Key words: social institution, culture, organisation

Еfimova Tatiana Viktorovna,
PhD in Culturology,
Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities
and Social Sciences (Saint-Petersburg),
e-mail: tanchicz@yandex.ru

Founder
Likhachev
Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural
Heritage

Publisher
Likhachev
Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural
Heritage

Frequency
4 issues per year

Published
online only

Certificate
of the mass
information media
registration:
Эл. № ФС77-59205,
date: 03.09.2014

институт культурного

и природного наследия

имени Д.С.Лихачёва,

2014-2025.

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