Reposted by Vefa Saygın Öğütle
V.S. Öğütle (2021) "Institution as Mediation between Social Structure and Agency: Toward a Realist Social Ontology of Institutions", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 51(3): 489-507.
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Institution as mediation between social structure and agency: Toward a realist social ontology of institutions
There is a widely accepted conception that institutions are norm systems or norm-guided practices. Opening this conception itself to discussion, the paper initially discusses a group of concepts, suc...