ABSTRACT

These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. Sometimes called 'grid-group analysis' or 'cultural theory', they derive from the work of Durkheim in the 1880s and 1900s and develop the insights of the anthropologist Mary Douglas and her followers from the 1960s on. First redefined within social and cultural anthropology, the theory's influence is shown in recent years to have 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.

part

The Institutional Dynamics of Culture Volume I

part I|2 pages

Theory

chapter 2|14 pages

Institutions: Problems of Theory

chapter 4|30 pages

Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of A Social Context

Cultural Contributions to a Theory of Rational Choices

part III|2 pages

Politics

chapter 20|10 pages

New political violence in Africa*

Secular sectarianism in Sierra Leone

chapter 21|6 pages

Can Policy Making be Evidence-Based?

part |9 pages

The Institutional Dynamics of Culture Volume II

part V|2 pages

Business, Work and Organizations

part VI|2 pages

Environment, Technology and Risk

chapter 36|20 pages

Risk and Blame 1

chapter 40|10 pages

1 Three Framing Devices

part VII|2 pages

Crime

chapter 46|28 pages

Culture and Crime

chapter 48|14 pages

Fear and loathing in late modernity

Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States

chapter 50|18 pages

Degrees of estrangement

The cultural theory of risk and comparative penology

part VIII|2 pages

Consumption

chapter 51|12 pages

Two contrasting dining styles

suburban conformity and urban individualism 1