4. <span>I seized the bell-rope; dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it tremblingly once again, and pulled it so feebly that I could hardly hear the stroke myself.
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Answer: Social institutions are the social patterns directing human behaviour in the performance of basic activities. Social institutions provide better chances for human survival. The central aspects of institutions are the, functions and the roles carried out by their members.
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D- Disintegration because, “to minimize deterioration” is to minimize something from decaying or in the act of becoming worse or disintegrating
