The shaping of social organization – social rule system theory with applications

Sage Publications

1987

432 p.

0803980272

Contents: Actors, social action and systems ; Social rule system theory ; The organization of social action and social forms ; Actors, rules and social structure ; Rule systems, social power and the organization of modern society ; Consensus and conflict in social life ; Grammars of social institutions and the structuring of spheres of social action ; The structuring of markets and other distributive systems ; Market organization and performance properties: the rise and decline of the Swedish method ; Collective bargaining regimes and their transformation ; Multiple rule systems: formal and informal social organization ; Local public administration as an arena of conflicting rule systems ; Hydro-power administration in a changing world: industrial growth, environmentalism and centre-periphery struggle in Norway ; Technology and technique, social action and rule systems ; A modern oracle and politics: studies in energy forecasting ; Science and practical action: studies in competing logics ; Conclusion: Principles of social organization and the structuration of modern Western societies.

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