INSTITUTIONALISM

Question 1

• A large-scale social arrangement that is stable and predictable, created and maintained to serve the needs of society.

• Family - to procreate (have children), nurture, and teach values
-Religion - to answer the unanswerable, establish morality, deal with death and the afterlife
• Government - authority and power
- Education - an institution through which children and adults are taught formal academic knowledge and norms.
- Media - means of communication

Answer 1

INSTITUTIONS

Question 2

- An approach that emphasizes the role of institutions.
-Emphasizes the usefulness of established institutions, often at the expense of the individual.
-An approach to understanding organizations and management practices as the product of social rather than economic pressures.

Answer 2

INSTITUTIONALISM

Question 3

•Focuses on formal institutions of state/**government **and their various laws and practices which are applied to citizens.

Answer 3

Old Institutionalism

Question 4

“Interplay of the different institutions within the society, and how their** dynamics, rules, and norms** determine the behavior and actions of individuals.
“A sociological view of institutions, the way they interact and the effects of institutions on society.

Answer 4

New Institutionalism

Question 5

Types of
Institutionalism

Answer 5

1. Normative Institutionalism
   2.Historical Institutionalism
   3.Rational Choice Institutionalism

Question 6

A sociological interpretation of institutions and holds logic of appropriateness
•Guides the behavior of actors within an
-Tries to answer the question “in which lies social existence of norms (to whom they are addressed, in what environment, what is their form) and what functions have norms in social realitv.

Answer 6

Normative Institutionalism

Question 7

«Emphasizes the **importance of initial decisions and choices **of venues and introduces notions such as that of path dependency; traditions; response to structural functionalism.
•Emphasizes how timing, sequences and path dependence affect institutions, and shape social,
political,
economic behavior and
change.

Answer 7

Historical Institutionalism

Question 8

•Emphasizes the power by individuals.
•Focus being upon how individuals can use institutions to maximize their interest.

Answer 8

Rational Choice Institutionalism

Question 9

Characteristics of Institutions

Answer 9

1.structures
2. Stability
3. Regulator of individual behavior
4. Shared values
5. Legitimacy

Question 10

• - The most significant element of an institution.
- —— may be either formal (legislature, bureaucracy, political parties, mass-media) or informal (a network of interacting organizations or a set of shared norms).
Institutionalism provides no place for individuals and their interests.
- Rather it involves groups of individuals in some sort of patterned interactions
that is predictable based upon specified relationships among the actors.

Answer 10

Structures

Question 11

• - The existence of some sort of —— over time.
- Some legislator may decide to meet in a committee meeting once in a room in the parliament house. That could be very pleasant but it would not be an institution.
- If they agree to meet routinely after a specific period of time at the same place, that would begin to take on the shape of an institution.

Answer 11

Stability

Question 12

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- Institutions must in some way (formal/ informal) constrain the behavior of its members. If we resume with the trivial_instance of the committee meeting above, it may not be considered as an institution if the members do not attach importance and obligation to attend the meeting.

Answer 12

Regulator of individual behavior

Question 13

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- There should be some sense of —- ——and meaning among the members of the institution.
This view is central to the normative
institutionalism of March and Olsen

Answer 13

Shared Values

Question 14

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- Institutions involve legitimacy beyond the preference of individual actors. They are valued in themselves and not simply for their immediate purposes and outputs. Institution’s stability of over time may contribute to gain this legitimacy (Lowndes: 1996:182).

Answer 14

Legitimacy

Question 15

1.
The role of this institutions is to procreates (have children), nurture, and teach values.
2.
This institution answers the unanswerable, establish morality, deal with death and the afterlife.
3.
This institution is concerned with the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services; supply & demand.
4.
This institution is entrusted with making and enforcing the rules of a society as well as with regulating relations with other societies. (political order)
5.
it isa plac e when people of dierent age, pain ar
elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities.

Answer 15

Family
Religion
Economy
Government
Education