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Institutions and Social Conflict
Jack Knight
出版Cambridge University Press, 1992-10-30
主題Political Science / Political EconomyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicySocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Violence in Society
ISBN05214218969780521421898
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VeoKtu_22q0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions originally develop? And when and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Second, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasizes the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts. The book draws its examples from an extensive variety of social institutions.