Institution of Culture

AMIRY HOTTINGER, HTH San Diego CA



Overview: For this project, we researched a specific institution in order to gain an understanding of how a particular social institution affected me, my peers and society at large. To do so, we wrote a paper on our personal experience of how this institution affected us and conducted a survey to acquire information of how our institution affected them. After building an initital understanding based on individual and peer expreiences, we had to develop an essential question to conduct further research on our topic and to understand the significance of this institution. Lastly, we had to present an analysis and application of ideas based on what we learned from our collected research.


The Institution of Culture Paper

Reflection: For this project, I chose to center my institution on culture, but more specifically on values. Considering all the data that was received through the survey as well as my personal exprience, this leaves one essential question: What is the main underlying influence of a child's cultural values? This also leaves another compelling question; How significant is the role of family in the influence of their child's cultural values? These two questions often arise because it seems as if the importance of culture is beginning to diminish and one could only wonder why that is so. It would be beneficial to find the true underlying reason why this happens because it is crucial to understand who, or what exactly is directing children to follow their values and if parents play a expressive role to influence their young on what to believe in. By finding an answer to these questions, one could determine the importance of cultural values for children and the influences of them.