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In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. He ressurrects a level of analysis undertaken by earlier functionalist theorists, but with a new-found emphasis-that of discovering the larger forces driving the formation of human institutional systems. Only by exploring the larger macro-dynamics can the institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, and education be fully understood, as Turner persuasively shows in this magesterial explication of twenty millenia of human social life.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Business & management Organizational theory & behaviour

• Full title: Human Institutions
• Subtitle: A Theory of Societal Evolution
• Author: Jonathan H. Turner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780742525580
• ISBN: 0742525589
• ID: 04905035
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 548 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2003

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