“Institutionalized” Imaginary: Language as a Social Construct

This essay aims to highlight the sociological approach to the “institutionalization” of socialization and its roots in language development. First and foremost, the state of consciousness can be objectified through selecting and combining words in accordance to the semiotic complexity being that is part of the linguistic process. This can be analyzed through the insights brought forward by some sociologists (e.g. Berger and Luckmann, Barthes, Baudrillard, Elias, Goffman, Wright Mills). A link between language, irrationality and imaginary can be found in order to probe the social application of the language and its aura of complex meaning and symbolic trajectories. Hence follows the study of language as a “reversal of the past” and means of psychic development as well as the search for meaning bound to mould everyday “institutionalized” imaginary.