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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook's 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms Major Methodological Perspectives Domains of Inquiry Cultural Sociology in Contexts Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.
Neoinstitutionalist Sociology1
Neoinstitutionalist Sociology1
INTRODUCTION
The rise of the new institutionalisms (Hall and Taylor, 1996; Schmidt, 2008) can be seen as part of the same ‘linguistic', ‘constructionist’ or – if you like – ‘cultural’ turn that also resulted in coining the terms ‘cultural studies’ and ‘cultural sociology'. As Powell and DiMaggio (1991) note, new institutionalism developed from several researchers’ observation in the 1970s that the world is inconsistent with the ways in which contemporary theories – rational choice and functionalism – asked them to see it. Empirical observations spoke against the assumptions that individuals and organizations make rational choices and that organizations are built because of their beneficial consequences:
Administrators and politicians champion programs that are established but not implemented; managers gather information assiduously, but fail to ...
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