This week in lectorial, we spoke about institutions and the different types including social and cultural.

“Concern with organising structures of society and have certain values and principles.”

Marriage as a social and/or cultural institutions. I never thought of these events such as marriage that we hear in every day to be classified as certain institutions, until now it does make sense. It means different things to different cultures and is celebrated in different ways – thus is a cultural institution. It is looked upon differently through different groups of people (society). It changes family values as two people are coming together to create a family – thus is a social institution.

In regards to both the audio and video essays for our PB4’s, it was suggested that ‘ideas’ was the central element as all the other elements seemed to draw back to it. The other elements within essays consisted of research & observation, quotes, intelligence as primary matter, personal voice ‘subjective’ and affordances of the medium/ techniques.