Nevertheless, further research is needed to ascertain validity across institutions, languages (present results stem from the German version of the questionnaire) and cultural contexts.
From the original survey of 2,681 households, we selected a subset of parents based on location (one hour drive of our academic institution), language (spoke English or Spanish), and insurance status of their children (public or private insurance).
However, it should be noted that institutions of language, such as the English language, are often regarded not simply as institutions but as more fundamental than many other kinds of institution by virtue of being presupposed by, or in part constitutive of, other institutions.
Our habits and institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and "in some sense vaguely progressive".
The implication was that the northwest was to be open to French institutions and language as well as English, an assumption that was to be thwarted by the extreme smallness of the new province, which amounted to little more than the Red River Settlement, and by the dominion's control of natural resources and of the still vast North West Territory.
He is also said to be the founder of a kind of cultural anthropology, since his account of the origin of the cosmos includes an account of the origin of human institutions, including language and social and political organization.
But we haven't even begun to address the real problem which is the deep-seated misogyny and structural sexism embedded in our social institutions, ideologies, language, and relationships.
In the past decade, the number of institutions offering languages such as French, German and Italian has dropped by 18%.
