Saturday, February 21, 2015

Daniel Little — Social structures as entities


Institutions and rules.

Understanding Society
Social structures as entities
Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy at UM-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology at UM-Ann Arbor

2 comments:

Roger Erickson said...

Self-evident topic. Unfortunately, he doesn't say much of anything about it.

Tom Hickey said...

Yes, but consideration of it seems to elude many economists excepting some heterodox. And notice, it does include microfoundations (individuals) along with meso (institutions) and macro (society). As you say, so obvious as not be worth mentioning, except that so many seem to either miss it entirely, or ignore in their work by assuming representative agency for methodological convenience in spite of having to oversimplify.