Service to Humanity
02. The book serves to enhance the interactional and bargaining power of people inside groups and organizations.
03. The book serves to enhance peoples' understanding of the society; thereby encouraging the development of a feeling of 'being at home in the society' inside them.
Service to the Academia
0.1. 'Understanding Social Institutions', provides undergraduate students with the knowledge of the meaning, components, origin, characteristics, types, functions, et cetera, of social institutions.
02. The book serves as an aid to research by highlighting existing gaps in knowledge where further studies should be directed at.
03. Also serves as an aid to research by providing researchers with testable hypotheses and research questions.
04. The book provides people embarking on studies with theoretical framework/orientation for their studies.
05. The book can also be used by analysts to link research findings to theories.