ABSTRACT
When used in conjunction with the social, the term systemic, in view of its mechanic and stern overtones in the normative subconscious, stands on the knife’s edge. For this reason, to conduct an institutional analysis from a systemic perspective, a dynamic trade-off should be established between formal and informal institutions with respect to their inter-repulsive and inter-complementary inclinations and among micro-constituencies of a social system, such as individuals, groups and organisations, and macro-constituencies, such as governments, the bureaucracy, and so on. This is because the static and sharp-edged analytic apparatuses of mainstream social systems theory have prompted system analysis to lock in the monolithic, univocal and unidirectional premises of structural functionalism.
