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Institutions and Social Conflict

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Institutions and Social Conflict

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Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions originally develop? And when and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Second, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasizes the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts. The book draws its examples from an extensive variety of social institutions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2008-01-12
Publication Date:
2004-02-20
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0521421896
ISBN13:
9780521421898
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
415 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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