ABSTRACT
An institutional ethnography would have drawn the changing life situation of the young men into consideration and looked at the administrative regulation and the everyday life of plantation workers. J. Habermas basically challenges the question of change in system theory. He understands social systems as something which are produced by human actions in the way we interact with each other. The lifeworld of a person is a universe, borders of which can be formally defined but never conceived in its totality. A specific cultural entity defines both the status and restrictions related to creativity and change. Social space is seen as a physical space defined and demarcated by culture with respect to access, possibilities and rights of certain actors in time and space. Cultural hierarchy defines the cultural hegemony and dominance of a certain culture and its relation to different subcultures which are in some way defined by this relation and get their identity from this relation.
