Select two or three specific institutions that exist with very different organizational frameworks, such as different ideals, concepts of morality or perceptions of the world. Make sure each organization you select is strong and operating in the same developmental period, such as recently launched, operating strong or declining. Compare and contrast their organizational styles and ideals, while investigating the reasons each company can represent different cultural and social standards. This is a research study in the effects of culture and subculture, examining the way one community can create multiple social norms.
Choose an institution in its early developmental period of construction and examine the cultural and social conditions on which its founders based it. Ask how those conditions contributed to its formation and the development of its ideals. Investigate other social issues and concerns significant during the institutions inception. Look into how those concerns affected other institutions in the same community. For instance, you might find a new hardware store that just opened and decide to investigate the demand for its products, the state of the economy when its owners decided to open it and other hardware stores in the area, looking for how this new one is distinctive.
Investigate an institution in your area, evaluating your community and then comparing its rules and ideals to the expectations of that community. Look for evidence that its community affected the way it was developed and the rules and ideals that manage it. Speculate on other rules and ideas of the institution and ask if other rules are a result of community expectations. As an example, you could evaluate a local political action organization by evaluating your community's political ideas and determining which of those ideals the group represents, making connections between the group's ideals and society's expectations.
Select an institution in your area and evaluate its rules and ideals. Speculate on what these rules suggest about the environment in which it was established and the changes in society since then. Ask what these rules or ideals suggest about the community in which the institution exists. Determine if these suggestions are a positive or negative view of the community. For instance, you could research a local music store that focuses on loud music, abrupt advertisement and antisocial messages, using these ideas to determine what the company is saying about the community to which it is selling.