Sociology and the New Institutionalism
Author
Editor
- James D. Wright
Summary, in English
In sociology, new institutionalists led the revival in interest in institutions in organizational theory and economic sociology by shifting the focus of causal reasoning from agent-centric studies of economic and organizational actors to the relationship connecting the firm with its institutional environment. We suggest a multilevel causal model incorporating the connection between the subinstitutional domain of social action and concrete social relationships, and the meso- and macroinstitutional environment of customs, conventions, law, organizations, ideology, and the state as the key elements explaining the rise and demise of institutions. In this model, norms bridge the microworld of individual actors and social groups, and the broader institutional environment.
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
979-983
Publication/Series
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Links
Document type
Article in encyclopedia
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Sociology
Keywords
- Social groups
- Self-reproducing social structures
- Opposition norms
- Norms
- Networks
- Multilevel causal model
- Institutional change
- Formal institutions
- Endogenous change
- Decoupling of norms
- Capitalism in China
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-0-08-097087-5