Marriage is above all a familiar institution: almost all members of society — even young children — have heard of it and have some notion of what it involves.
The barbershop was a familiar institution in ancient Greece and Rome and then, as now, was a centre for the exchange of gossip and opinion.
She oversaw a program to delouse children, to treat skin disease, and to maintain separate classes for children afflicted with trachoma — and, in the process, began an over-all effort for in-school medical care for children that led to the now familiar institution of the school nurse.
Unlike presidential elections, which strike most Afghans as alien and fundamentally suspect, jirgas of all sizes are trusted and utterly familiar institutions.
The brainchild of Elizabeth Wagley, a former fund-raiser and communications adviser for nonprofit groups including Doctors of the World, the Progressive Book Club is trying to update the paradigm of such familiar institutions as the Book-of-the-Month Club, as well as the 44-year-old Conservative Book Club.
He seems largely to think it will be better, at least materially, but then sways back in the end to a warning that the familiar institutions of private life and of the state no longer "operate in the way they used to".Whereas Mr Hobsbawm has at least the consolation of believing that the neo-liberal phase of capitalism is over, Mr Anderson insists it is in full flood.
First, they must recognize that most or all of these familiar institutions are in a state of crisis.
Most of the district's familiar institutions, including the stock exchange building and the Federal Reserve branch, will remain where they are.
It claims that unlike Europe, with its different languages and legal systems, the Commonwealth has "shared values, a common language, familiar institutions and similar legal and regulatory systems".
It may be true that some familiar institutions can't co-exist with a steady state economy, such as the fractional reserve banking system.
This may reflect the attraction of familiar institutions and traditions which have the additional reassurance of offering explanations for epilepsy from within people's own belief system (as opposed to medical uncertainty) and the prospect of a cure (as opposed to control) [ 30, 56].
