Human Institutions
Author | : Jonathan H. Turner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0742525597 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780742525597 |
Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Download or read book Human Institutions written by Jonathan H. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. He ressurrects a level of analysis undertaken by earlier functionalist theorists, but with a new-found emphasis--that of discovering the larger forces driving the formation of human institutional systems. Only by exploring the larger macro-dynamics can the institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, and education be fully understood, as Turner persuasively shows in this magesterial explication of twenty millenia of human social life.