Salawu, B.Adekeye, Deborah Shade2020-05-292020-05-292003978-059-368-3http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4092Everywhere, human beings develop arrangements for producing, distributing and consuming goods. in other words they have developed the institution of economy. Human beings everywhere have also developed some sort of system for distributing power, this is call government. in every human society, people have also developed procedures for teaching children in their society. this is called education or socialization. Finally, human beings everywhere develop explanations for their place in the universe, this is called religion.enKinshipReligious institutionDescentMarriage institutionEducational InstitutionThe Basic Social InstitutionsBook chapter