Social organisation
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This article is about a sociological concept. For zoosemiotics term, see Social animal
Social organisation or social institution is a group of social positions, connected by social relations, perfoming a social role. It can be also definedin a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to socialize the groups or people in it. Common examples include universities, governments, families, and any people or groups that you have social interactions with.
Social organisations can take many form, depending on a social context. For example, for family context the corresponding social organisation is of course the family. For business context - an enterprise, company, corporation, etc. For educational context - school, university, etc. For political context - government, political party, and others.
Max Weber concluded that in the history of mankind, organisations evolved towards rationalisation in form of a rational-legal organisation, like bureaucracy.
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