How institutions think

by Douglas, Mary

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Title Statements

Full title :How institutions think / Mary Douglas.

Summary

"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. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals to think different kinds of thoughts and to respond to different emotions. It is just as difficult to explain how individuals come to share the categories of their thought as to explain how they ever manage to sink their private interests for a common good.

"Douglas forewarns us that institutions do not think independently, nor do they have purposes, nor do they build themselves. As we construct our institutions, we are squeezing each other's ideas into a common shape in order to prove their legitimacy by sheer numbers. She admonishes us not to take comfort in the thought that primitives may think through institutions, but moderns decide on important issues individually. Our legitimated institutions make major decisions, and these decisions always involve ethical principles."--Publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1986.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Syracuse University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1986.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 146 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0815623690, 9780815623694, 0815602065, 9780815602064, 0710211848, 9780710211842, 0710211783, 9780710211781
oclc:ocm13332366
LC Classification:HM826
Dewey Decimal:306

Introduction -- Institutions cannot have minds of their own -- Smallness of scale discounted -- How latent groups survive -- Institutions are founded on analogy -- Institutions confer identity -- Institutions remember and forget -- A case of institutional forgetting -- Institutions do the classifying -- Institutions make life and death decisions.

Subjects

Bibliografia Bibliographie Bibliography Cognition and culture Cognition et culture comportement organisationnel conducta organizacional Institution Institution (Soziologie) Institutions sociales -- Aspect psychol… organization behaviour Organizational behavior Psicología social Psychologie sociale Social institutions -- Psychological as… social psychology