Institutional Perspective defines participation as the reach and inclusion of inputs by

relevant groups in the design and implementation of a development project.

Institutions, according to Samuel P. Huntington, are "stable, valued, recurring patterns

of behavior". Further, institutions can refer to mechanisms which govern the behavior of
a set of individuals within a given community; moreover, institutions are identified with
a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that
govern living behavior.According to Geoffrey M. Hodgson, it is misleading to say that an
institution is a form of behavior. Instead, Hodgson states that institutions are
"integrated systems of rules that structure social interactions".

The term "institution" commonly applies to both informal institutions such as customs,
or behavior patterns important to a society, and to particular formal institutions created
by entities such as the government and public services. Primary or meta-institutions are
institutions such as the family that are broad enough to encompass other institutions.

Institutions are a principal object of study in social sciences such as political science,
anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter described by Émile Durkheim as the
"science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning"). Institutions are also a
central concern for law, the formal mechanism for political rule-making and
enforcement.

Institutional Perspective Emphasizes the political, legal, and economic environments in

the development of family and community networks Unlike the communitarian and
network perspectives, the institutional view measures social capital as a dependent
variable This institutional view seems to assume equal access to institutions, which
would not include circumstances facing the disadvantaged poor or families from other
cultures

INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Social Institutions – arise from voluntary shared

agreements among individuals that generally also shape their behaviors as collective;
perform functions of community Institutions – established rules that ensure the regular
and predictable behavior

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