Institutions were discussed today (another option for Project Brief 4)
Institutions are:
- – principles, values, rules that underlie these
- – social, cultural, political, economic relations
- – concern with organising structures of society
- – term for sociology
‘The Wire’ – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
“Marriage” as a social institution
– industry (commercial (photographers/planners etc.)
– historical continuities
– expectations: values (monogamy)
– a legal framework/regulatory
– meta-institutional frame
– rituals, symbolic
– reproduces social relations/expectations
– romantic love – cultural narratives
– widely accepted/practice
– cultural ‘rules’
– community/social recognition
Examples of media institutions:
– ABC
– The News
– Journalism
– Newscorp
– Cinema
– Broadcast Television
– Community Radio
– Public Service Broadcasting
– RRR
Media Institutions
– are enduring
– regulate and structure activities
– are ‘collectivist’.
– develop working practices
– employees and people associated are expected to share values
– public is aware of the status
This lecture was a tedious as I was feeling quite tired. However it was interesting to discuss institutions and the power in which they hold.
