- published: 30 Dec 2015
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An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose and permanence, transcending individual human lives and intention by enforcing rules that govern cooperative human behavior.
The term "institution" is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as well as to particular formal organizations of government and public services. As structures and mechanisms of social order among humans, institutions are one of the principal objects of study in the social sciences, such as political science, anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter being described by Durkheim as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning"). Institutions are also a central concern for law, the formal mechanism for political rule-making and enforcement.
In an extended context:
Although individual, formal organizations, commonly identified as "institutions," may be deliberately and intentionally created by people, the development and functioning of institutions in society in general may be regarded as an instance of emergence; that is, institutions arise, develop and function in a pattern of social self-organization, which goes beyond the conscious intentions of the individual humans involved.
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
Wake up the little boy
Puppet to be destroyed
Your privacy betrayed
Take take take your life away
Cold silent words come out
Been stolen from your mouth
Corrupted me this way
No, I will not obey
Institutions
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
Out to you I reach
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
Through the walls I creep
I woke up inside to see the outside
Nightmares they strip away
Toxic humanity
Captive to my own mind
Fictions on which I thrive
Sick man’s reality
Robs the awakening
Changes what once was real
Searching for what I feel
Institutions
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
Out to you I reach
I hear the voices fade away, their voices fading away
Through the walls I creep
I woke up inside to see the outside
Did you get em
Born of god
We build a cage
Inside a saw
With no escape
My revelation
Now it takes control
Man’s fallen, world asylum
Can’t be, can’t be
Is this what we deserve?
Institutions in my head
Institutions in your head
Institutions in my head