The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II: The New Durkheimians

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ISBN: 9780754626176 | 0754626172
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Copyright: 11/28/2008

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These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. The influence of this theory has, in recent years, permeated all the main disciplines of social science with substantial implications for politics, history, business, work and organizations, the environment, technology and risk, and crime and consumption. Today, the institutional theory of culture now rivals the rational choice, Weberian and postmodern outlooks in influence across the social sciences.

Introduction
Theory
Four cultures: the evolution of a parsimonious model
Institutions: problems of theory
Traditional culture - let's hear no more about it
Why self-interest means less outside of a social context: cultural contributions to a theory of rational choices
Cultural contributions to explaining institutional form, political change and rational decisions
What is there to feel? A neo-Durkheimian theory of the emotions, Perri 6
Hi and low - in and out: approaches to social status
Cultural theory without grid and group
Institutional viability: a neo-Durkheimian theory, Perri 6
Methods
Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why?
A quantitative test of the culture theory of risk perceptions: comparison with the psychometric paradigm
Risk as politics, culture as power
Cultural theory and risk perception: a proposal for a better measurement
Politics
Control over bureaucracy: cultural theory and institutional variety
Joined-up government in the Western world in comparative perspective: a preliminary literature review and exploration, Perri 6
Are you sitting comfortably ... then we'll begin: three gripping policy stories about pension reform
Comparing political orientations: grid-group theory versus the left-right dimension in the 5 Nordic countries
Life is a lottery
New Labour's strategy for the reform of developed governance
The rules that keep us equal: complexity and costs of egalitarian organisation
New political violence in Africa: secular sectarianism in Sierra Leone
Can policy making be evidence-based?, Perri 6
Cultural pluralism can both strengthen and weaken democracy
History
A cultural analysis of the role of abolitionists in the coming of the civil war
The social basis of sacred spaces on the Prehispanic Andes: ritual landscapes of the dead in Chimú and Inka societies
Polyhedra and the abominations of Leviticus: cognitive styles in mathematics
The political culture of warring states China
Is the 'inner wall' here to stay? Justice ideologies in unified Germany
Name index

Business, Work and Organizations
Cultural theory and contemporary management organization
A cultural theory of information bias in organizations
Grid-group analysis, social capital, and entrepreneurship among North American ethnic groups
The impact of new public management reforms on public servants' ethics: towards a theory
Why do we keep on meeting like this? The board as ritual in health and social care
Practical management of programme risk: the case of the National Strategy for Police Information Systems for England and Wales
Locating causes of accidents in the social organisation of building workers and some wider implications: an approach from cultural theory
Management of radiation hazards in hospitals: plural rationalities in a single institution
Environment, Technology and Risk
Risk and blame
How fair is safe enough? The cultural approach to societal technology choice
Culture and the environment in the Pacific Northwest
What's in a frame? Social organization, risk perception and the sociology of knowledge
Three framing devices
The complex life: human land uses in mountain eco-systems
Cultural theory and integrated assessment
Risk and governance part I: the discourses of climate change
Risk and governance, part II: policy in a complex and plurally perceived world
Mapping institutional diversity for implementing the Lisbon principles
Crime
Criminal cultures
Terrorism: a positive feedback game
The greening and governance of crime control
Degrees of estrangement: the cultural theory of risk and comparative penology
Consumption
Two contrasting dining styles: suburban conformity and urban individualism
Making ends meet, in the household and on the planet
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