Instituties

Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people

by Smith, Dorothy E.

fromGender lens series

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"Prominent sociologist Dorothy E. Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the …

Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people

by Smith, Dorothy E.

fromGender lens series

0 Type: Book

"Prominent sociologist Dorothy E. Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the …

Institutional Ethnography: a Sociology for People

by Smith, Dorothy E.

fromGender lens series

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Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from women's standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This wi…

Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people

by Smith, Dorothy E.

fromGender lens series

0 Type: Book

"Prominent sociologist Dorothy E. Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the …

Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natura…

by Gunderson, Lance H., Holling, C. S.

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Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integr…

Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natura…

by Gunderson, Lance H., Holling, C. S.

0 Type: Book

Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integr…

African economic institutions

by Akonor, Kwame

fromGlobal institutions series

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Examines and assesses the principal international economic organizations (IEO's) based in Africa, analysing how African IEOs have evolved and what contributions they have made to the continents socio-economic development.

Individual strategy and social structure: an evolutionary theory of institutions

by Young, H. Peyton

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Neoclassical economics assumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of th…

Individual strategy and social structure: an evolutionary theory of institutions

by Young, H. Peyton

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Publisher description: Neoclassical economics assumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limit…

Individual strategy and social structure: an evolutionary theory of institutions

by Young, H. Peyton

0 Type: Book

Publisher description: Neoclassical economics assumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limit…

Macro markets: creating institutions for managing society's larg…

by Shiller, Robert J.

fromClarendon lectures in economics

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In this original book, Professor Shiller has created a unique and authoritative set of proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks facing society. Our existing financial markets, he argues, are inadequate to deal with such risks and ma…

Stealing the state: control and collapse in Soviet institutions

by American Council of Learned Societies, Solnick, Steven Lee

fromRussian Research Center studies

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"What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top or to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within. In three case studies - on the Com…

Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan

fromPrinceton legacy library

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This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment a…