How Institutions Think

ISBN-13: 9780415679527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 160 str.

Mary Douglas

Opis

First published in 1986, Mary Douglas' 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.

Spis treści

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