Institutional Logics: On the Constitutive Dimensions of the Modern Nation-State Polities

Nation-state; institutionalisation; institutions; state building; identity

Interpretation, Explanation and Theories of Meaning

We use the work of Clifford Geertz to examine long-standing questions about the relationship between interpretation and explanation. We extract from Geertz’s work explanatory theories of what we are calling meaning and meaningfulness. We argue that making explicit interpretivists’ implicit theories about how these differing kinds of cultural experience work clarifies what interpretivists like Geertz are doing, but also allows us to examine the strengths and weaknesses of theories that underlie interpretive practice. We find that Geertz was more of a generalizing theorist of culture than he claimed to be and that the theories he worked with provide fruitful elements for an ongoing, theoretically-guided research program into how culture works

Institutional Logics: On the Constitutive Dimensions of the Modern Nation-State Polities

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

The Development and Application of Sociological Neoinstitutionalisn

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

People, place, and system: organizations and the renewal of urban social theory

This article offers a theoretical framework for thinking about how organizations matter for the production, reproduction, and amelioration of urban poverty. We draw on the classical concept of integration, in both its social and systemic versions, as an important tool for advancing urban social theory. A key challenge for urban organizational analysts is to keep within view the processes of both social and systemic integration, while empirically investigating how they are connected (or not). Too many urban researchers focus on one or the other, with little conceptualization of the importance of linking the two. We argue that urban organizations of all kinds provide a strategic site for observing processes of both social and systemic integration, and that urban organizational research should examine many of them to better understand the multiple urban transformations currently in process