Accelerate Trust

Accumulate Value

Are Easier To Build Than Maintain

Are Easier To Maintain Than Rebuild

Are Hard To See From Inside

Become Infrastructure

Become More Real Through Repetition

Become More Real With Age

Become More Valuable Together

Become Real Through Repetition

Become Themselves Through Use

Borrow Authority

Borrow Authority From Age

Carry Authority

Carry Civilization

Create Context

Create Continuation

Create Continuity

Create Density

Create Dependence

Create Depth Over Time

Create Gravity

Create Legitimacy

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create Permanence

Create Predictability

Create Stability

Decay

Defend The Present

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Depend On Trust

Endure

Extend Authority

Extend Trust

Gather

Have Long Memories

Invite Stewardship

Invite Trust

Lend

Make Cooperation Possible

Make Good Ancestors

Make Knowledge Durable

Make Scale Possible

Mature

Need Boundaries

Need Cultivation

Need Defense

Need Protection

Need Recovery

Organize Cooperation

Outlive Excitement

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Explanations

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Ownership

Outlive Their Creator

Outlive Their Makers

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Persist Through Change

Pretend To Be Temporary

Quietly Connect Eras

Quietly Connect Strangers

Quietly Demand Loyalty

Quietly Hold The Future

Reduce Asymmetry

Remember Pressure

Remember Shape

Reveal Themselves Under Pressure

Reward Commitment

Reward Conservation

Reward Consistency

Reward Continuity

Reward Custodianship

Reward Density

Reward Familiarity

Reward Fresh Eyes

Reward Investment

Reward Maintenance

Reward Participation

Reward Patience

Reward Preservation

Reward Reliability

Reward Renewal

Reward Scale

Reward Stewardship

Reward Stewardship Across Time

Reward Transparency

Stay Put

Turn Chance Into Habit

Turn Influence Into Responsibility

Turn Resources Into Wealth

Turn Responsibility Into Legacy

Turn Wealth Into Influence

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is (as, for example, the family, the organization, the economy) an ordered network of heterogeneous materials whose resistance has been overcome.

So much for science. But I have already suggested that science isn't very special. Thus what is true for science is also said to be true for other institutions. Accordingly, the family, the organisation, computing systems, the economy and technologies -all of social life -may be similarly pictured. All of these are ordered networks of heterogeneous materials whose resistance has been overcome. . (Law 1992 : .pdf).

is a group of people united by common interest, endowed by material equipment, following rules of their tradition or agreement (charter) and contributing to the work of culture as a whole.

a group of people united by common interest, endowed by material equipment, following rules of their tradition or agreement (charter) and contributing to the work of culture as a whole'

is a humanly devised constraints that structures political, economic and social interactions.

humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and social interactions'.

is a pattern of interaction among humans that is regularized and seen as meaningful.

A pattern of interaction among humans that is regularized and seen as meaningful. (net)

is a social entity such as as family, marriage, family, government, educational, legal, penal, heart, religious, service industry.

is a structured social practice that has a broad spatial and temporal extension.

structured social practices that have a broad spatial and temporal extension: that are structures in what the historian Braudel calls the longue duree of time, and which are followed or acknowledged by the majority of the members of a society'. (p.9, 1983) Structure are the patterns and continuity of interaction in time, and the roles and resources that bind time and space of social systems. Systems are synonomous with social practices and refer to the functioning of relations between actors or groups. Structuration refers to the conditions that govern the continuous reproduction of the rules and resources (structure) reproducing the systems.' (NET)

is a system of beliefs and practices (such as, say private property) in which all members know and expect their own role, the roles of others, and the accompanying attitudes, but all also know that virtually everyone else knows the roles and expects them to act accordingly.

a system of beliefs and practices in which each participant incorporates not only her own attitude and role but also the attitudes and roles of all the other participants. Mead used the example of the institution of private property. The pickpocket knows what to expect not only from the victim and the onlookers but also from the police, judges, jailers, and so forth. Private property is an institution in a society in which all members know and expect their own role, the roles of others, and the accompanying attitudes, but all also know that virtually everyone else knows the roles and expects them to act accordingly' (Scheff in Goffman's Legacy edited by Javier A. Trevino p. 60)

is always possessed of the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program. Mary Douglas

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