Mary Douglas

How Institutions Think (Routledge Revivals)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1986 Mary Douglasâ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Revivals
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780415684781
• ISBN-10: 0415684781
• Artikelnr.: 42357602

Autorenporträt

Mary Douglas

Inhaltsangabe

1. Institutions Cannot Have Minds of their Own 2. Smallness of Scale
Discounted 3. How Latent Groups Survive 4. Institutions are Founded on
Analogy 5. Institutions Confer Identity 6. Institutions Remember and Forget
7. A Case of Institutional Forgetting 8. Institutions do the Classifying 9.
Institutions Make Life and Death Decisions