All of these underlying ideas can be thought of as a kind of folk sociology or political science. They are everyday explanations of how the world works that sit alongside the folk economics that makes people think, for example, that there is a fixed stock of jobs at any one point or that a nation’s finances should be run in the same way as those of

Social institutions, networks and groups construct, mould and orchestrate human actions. Marx famously argued that people make their own history, but they do so not under circumstances of their own choosing since the ‘tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living’

consciousness. Some would like to speak about a mutation of collective consciousness which leads to a conception of man as an organism dependent not on nature and individuals, but rather on institutions. This institutionalization of substantive values, this belief that a planned process of treatment ultimately gives results desired by the recipient