Whereas the Bedouin acted in and through groups and even regularized intergroup raiding and warfare as a way of life, Meccans needed to act in their own interest and to minimize conflict by institutionalizing new, broader social alliances and interrelationships.
Liebig succeeded in institutionalizing the independent teaching of chemistry, which hitherto in German universities had been taught as an adjunct to pharmacy for apothecaries and physicians.
Mass education and the modern medical establishment were two of his main targets, and he accused both of institutionalizing and manipulating basic aspects of life.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, the increased use of competitive mass elections in western Europe had the purpose and effect of institutionalizing the diversity that had existed in the countries of that region.
The family also provides a valuable social and political function by institutionalizing procreation and by providing guidelines for the regulation of sexual conduct.
It is thus possible that international organizations can contribute to the prevention of wars by devising and institutionalizing alternative, peaceful techniques for the settlement of disputes and by persuading the states to use them.
Another way of institutionalizing relationships between the nationals of different states was epigamia, an arrangement by which the offspring of marriage were treated as citizens of the wife's polis if the husband settled there; and so was the husband.
The solutions of institutionalizing poverty in priesthood and monasticism, while rationalizing poverty as poverty of the spirit and material wealth as God's provision for ministry, formed the basis for medieval care of the poor.
As the popular radio host Sopitas commented, "If first you don't effectively clean up corruption, uniting the police is the equivalent of institutionalizing the narco police".
The four countries are institutionalizing this format as a steering committee for the process.
"I thought, Institutionalizing the counterculture is not going to work, so the thing we need to do now is to take the agenda we have developed in these small theatres and take over the theatres that have fountains in front of them," he says.
