More than understanding and critically engaging with relatively new concepts, this exercise has turned into autobiographical experience of discovery. The most interesting feature of this experience has been a significant re-thinking of my identity (as perceived by myself), yet it has involved understanding what identity actually meant at the same time. ... On a sub-topical level, my interests also extends to how (crudely speaking) Black/White/Coloured South Africans have formed their ideas and perception of India - the country, as a specific result of the South African Indian community. ......

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It is important to note that each institutionalism is not a concrete theory but rather, a school of thought in which a central question is presented, a critical juncture is identified, and a path-dependent development is presented. ... Culture is the institution, in this case and culture itself acts as a morphis of this institution, and this might be difficult to understand, but it begins with the norms and the values, as it pertains to religion, beliefs, perceptions, priorities etc Sociological Institution begins with a common identity. ... No, there must be coercion, a type of system in wh...

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