Toward a General Theory of Institutional Autonomy
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Toward a General Theory of Institutional Autonomy∗
Institutional differentiation has been one of the central concerns of sociology since the days of Auguste Comte. However, the overarching tendency among institutionalists such as Durkheim or Spencer has been to treat the process of differentiation from a macro, “outside in” perspective. Missing from this analysis is how institutional differentiation occurs from the “inside out,” or through the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sociological Theory
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0735-2751,1467-9558
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01358.x