Institution
Marriage
Explore in the Atlas →A classic instituted form and Searle status function — two persons 'count as married' through a collectively recognised ceremony and legal-religious framework, not by any physical fact. As an instituted imaginary it organises kinship, inheritance and household, and is one of the deepest determinants of domestic architecture: the layout of the dwelling, the marital chamber and the threshold rituals of the home all materialise the institution.
Dwelling Ritual Collectivity
Details
- Origin
- universal across cultures
- Register
- Instituted
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- John Searle articulates
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Marriage." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/institution/marriage/. Accessed July 17, 2026.