In today’s lecture we discussed what institutions are and Brian put up an interesting topic “marriage”. Where I come from, people think of it as a religious thing and a right way to do for a male and female to officially interact. I for think that it is a social contract between two people to officially declare a relationship in the eyes of God. This whole phenomena is commercial as well. The business booms up for wedding photographers and planners for the wedding. This institution gives a feeling of joining a some sort of marriage club where you will be accepted by the society and be considered pious one (husband and wife is a pure relationship in the eyes of God). But one has to think where the concept of marriage came from. It is just a belief that was created just to control the masses and fabricating the fear of the unknown.