The Invisible Order: A Relational Approach to Social Institutions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031164804)

The book addresses the problem of institutionalised order in modern capitalist societies with highly developed division of labour. Via thorough critique and reconstruction of neo institutionalist theory, classical social theories, and critical ideology theory, The Invisible Order introduces the first relational theory of social institutions to explain in detail how individuals end up encountering institutions as objective. Thus synthesising integrative and conflicting social relations, the work calls into question deeply rooted understandings in which society is variously construed as spontaneous equilibrium, solely conflict-driven, or a set of agent-based constructions. It offers a new take on the age-old questions of classical and critical social theory and on the fundamentals of institutional and organisational theory alike. This timely and useful relational examination of social institutions reveals how complex societies can keep functioning even though their orders are constantly contradicted by multiple disordering endeavours and tendencies.


Author: Olli Herranen
ISBN-10: 3031164806
ISBN-13: 9783031164804
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2022
Pages: 267
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d