How institutions think /

"First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow i...

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Autor principal: Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Frank W. Abrams lectures
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245 1 0 |a How institutions think /  |c Mary Douglas. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a Syracuse, N.Y. :  |b Syracuse University Press,  |c 1986. 
300 |a xi, 146 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
440 0 |a Frank W. Abrams lectures 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 129-139) e índice. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Institutions cannot have minds of their own -- Smallness of scale discounted -- How latent groups survive -- Institutions are founded on analogy -- Institutions confer identity -- Institutions remember and forget -- A case of institutional forgetting -- Institutions do the classifying -- Institutions make life and death decisions. 
520 |a "First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals to think different kinds of thoughts and to respond to different emotions. It is just as difficult to explain how individuals come to share the categories of their thought as to explain how they ever manage to sink their private interests for a common good. 
650 0 |a Social institutions  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Cognition and culture. 
650 0 |a Organizational behavior.