The book has been prepared to meet the needs of B.A Second Semester students of Sociology for the University of Jammu under the recommended National Education policy 2020. It comprehensively covers the syllabus of major and minor courses Social Institutions and Basic Institutions in Society. This book gives systematic introduction and explanation to all the four units of both the papers. All the Social Institutions namely, family and marriage, Kinship, religion and economy, polity and education including types of education and political system have been aptly discussed. The book contains simple, lucid and precise explanation of the topics so that it becomes students friendly. It can serve as a general reference book for the sociology students studying at the undergraduate level in all the other universities of India.