Social Institutions -- Introduction -- What is an institution? -- We make institutions as much as they make us -- Institutions organizations, and groups -- rest of the book -- Family -- Introduction -- Defining the family -- impact of social change on families -- Industrialization and the family: Louis Wirth and Talcott Parsons -- Marxist views -- Social change and family structure in South Africa -- Present-day family structures in South Africa -- Education -- Introduction -- rise of formal mass education -- rise of mass education in South Africa -- Conclusion.