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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
The Institutional Dynamics of Culture Volume I
part I|2 pages
Theory
chapter 4|30 pages
Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of A Social Context
part II|2 pages
Methods
part III|2 pages
Politics
part IV|2 pages
History
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
part VII|2 pages
Crime
chapter 48|14 pages
Fear and loathing in late modernity
part VIII|2 pages
Consumption