You might also like

Availability alert

More about Rule Systems Theory

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 176 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Explaining the complexity of social life remains the central challenge of the social sciences. This book offers a variety of theoretical-empirical explorations and applications inspired by an important neo-institutional approach to tackling this complexity - the rule systems theory. Its point of departure is the assumption that institutions and cultural formations possess causal powers and relative autonomy, constraining and enabling people's social actions and interactions. Structural and cultural properties of society are carried by, transmitted, and reformed by human agents whose interactions generate, reproduce, elaborate and transform structures. The contributors are highly accomplished economists, sociologists and political scientists who come from the US and several European countries. The book is meant as a Festschrift for Tom Burns, a central figure in the development of the rule systems theory.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Rule Systems Theory
• Author: Helena Flam, Marcus Carson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9783631575963
• ISBN: 9783631575963
• ID: 10027470
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 150 × 209 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2008

Trending among others

---

---

---