Institutions, ideologies and individualism all are interconnected concepts which influence one another. Institutions group people together under the same umbrella of ideology. Any institution is merely a system in which each person in it is handed a script and that script is the same for everyone so that the institution could propagate its own ideology. Individualism is a characteristic of a person, a characteristic which is composed of original ideas to solve its’ own problems no matter what they may be. Individuals could easily lose their individualistic nature by trying to conform to a larger group to meet all requirements which are needed to take part in a certain institution. Institutions, in today’s society, come in many different shapes
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Ideologies act as mindsets from which the constituents of an institution must think from. These ideologies could be established through mechanisms such as checklists in Wall Street or the specific rituals which make up a particular religion. And while institutions try to make an attempt to evoke some sort of individuality within its people, the institutions rarely accomplishes it because this initiation of individuality would just end up becoming another requirement that all participating people must fulfill. Institutions rarely support individuality because institutions in nature are collective systems whose very foundation is on particular ideologies. While Karen Armstrong gives an example where the attempt to establish individuality within an institution was slightly successful, Karen Ho gives an example of an institution which failed to develop any notion of individualism within its constituents. Therefore institutions can only encourage the individualistic nature to a certain measure without it failing. Conformity is the very foundation of collective systems and an institution is exactly that, a collective system. And systems which enforce conformity do not have room for individuality within its constituents. Institutions don’t allow individuality because of their nature to force conformity within its
Ideologies act as mindsets from which the constituents of an institution must think from. These ideologies could be established through mechanisms such as checklists in Wall Street or the specific rituals which make up a particular religion. And while institutions try to make an attempt to evoke some sort of individuality within its people, the institutions rarely accomplishes it because this initiation of individuality would just end up becoming another requirement that all participating people must fulfill. Institutions rarely support individuality because institutions in nature are collective systems whose very foundation is on particular ideologies. While Karen Armstrong gives an example where the attempt to establish individuality within an institution was slightly successful, Karen Ho gives an example of an institution which failed to develop any notion of individualism within its constituents. Therefore institutions can only encourage the individualistic nature to a certain measure without it failing. Conformity is the very foundation of collective systems and an institution is exactly that, a collective system. And systems which enforce conformity do not have room for individuality within its constituents. Institutions don’t allow individuality because of their nature to force conformity within its