Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

FUNCTIONS OF INSTITUTIONS

• Institutions define institutional behaviour and attitudes.
• Roles, statuses and other forms of social relations are prescribed and defined. e.g. How a teacher and students to behave in a school?
• Institutions serve to provide coordination and stability to culture and give sense of security to the individual not only in terms of the present but also of the future.
• Institutions serve as mechanisms of social control and exert pressure for conformity on individuals in society in various ways.
• Institutions sometime perform negative functions , which include:
  • Institutions may stand as obstructions in the path of progress.
  • Conserve social values, which may be inconsistent with the actual behaviour of people.