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The shaping of social organization : social rule system theory with applications

Title
The shaping of social organization : social rule system theory with applications / by Tom R. Burns and Helena Flam with Reinier de Man [and others].
Author
Burns, Tom R.
Publication
London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Flam, Helena.
  • Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.
Description
xiii, 432 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
SCASSS series
Uniform Title
SCASSS (Series)
Subject
  • Social structure
  • Social systems
  • System theory
  • Social institutions
  • Systems Theory
  • social structure
  • social institutions
  • Sociale organisatie
  • Sociale stelsels
Note
  • "Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences"--P. ii.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 416-424.
Credits (note)
  • At head of title verso: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.
Contents
Actors, social action and systems -- Social rule system theory -- The organization of social action and social forms -- Actors, rules and social structure -- Rule systems, social power and the organization of modern society -- Consensus and conflict in social life -- Grammars of social institutions and the structuring of spheres of social action -- The structuring of markets and other distributive systems -- Market organization and performance properties: the rise and decline of the Swedish method -- Collective bargaining regimes and their transformation -- Multiple rule systems: formal and informal social organization -- Local public administration as an arena of conflicting rule systems -- Hydro-power administration in a changing world: industrial growth, environmentalism and centre-periphery struggle in Norway -- Technology and technique, social action and rule systems -- A modern oracle and politics: studies in energy forecasting -- Science and practical action: studies in competing logics -- Conclusion: Principles of social organization and the structuration of modern Western societies.
ISBN
  • 0803980272
  • 9780803980273
LCCN
87060846
OCLC
  • ocm17550929
  • 17550929
  • SCSB-9054634
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library