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HUMAN INSTITUTIONS
A THEORY OF SOCIETAL EVOLUTION |
| By: |
Jonathan H. Turner |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0742525589 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780742525580 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2003 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2004 |
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Returnable |