Answer: it is our way of sacrificing our personal power to maintain societal structure and relationships.
Explanation: Institutions create structured, predictable ways of behavior around aspects of human lives. The organizations it creates range from the family to economic systems and the government. The rules of each of these systems help perpetuate society as we know it. Although these rules may require us to forego some of our personal power or desires, we do so because it is the prerequisite of belonging to the society.
