institution
Let an agent explain the two senses of institution, describe how institutions form and change, help identify and describe specific institutions with sources, and support institutional analysis.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the two senses of institution, describe how institutions form and change, help identify and describe specific institutions with sources, and support institutional analysis.
An established organisation or a stable pattern of rules, norms and roles that structures social life, such as governments, courts, universities, hospitals, churches and banks as organisations, and marriage, property, law and language as social institutions; institutions endure beyond individuals, shape behaviour and are studied in sociology, economics and political science.
What it is for: Enduring structures of social life.
It can be distinguish organisational and social senses; explain how institutions form and change; describe a specific institution with sources; support institutional analysis.
Distinguishing features
Enduring
Rule-based
Role-structured
Two senses
What it looks like
Buildings and organisations in the concrete sense; abstract in the sociological sense.
How it is recognised
Enduring organisation or rule system
Shapes behaviour
A temporary group or single event is not an institution
Related models
is a kind of - category
is a kind of - category
is related to - a common organisational form
is related to - political institutions
In practice
Families and kinds
political and legal institutions
educational and research institutions
economic and financial institutions
religious and cultural institutions
social institutions such as family and marriage
Standards and regulation
Charters, statutes and founding laws
Governance and accountability rules
No regulation for social institutions as concepts
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing the two senses
Institutional decay and capture
Treating contested institutions as neutral without attribution
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.institution
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Senses Which sense.
Disambiguation.
Which
Organisation or pattern.
Which
Sense.
- Is a specific organisation or a social institution such as marriage or property meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Specific
A specific institution.
Specific
Specific institution.
- What is this institution, what is its mandate, and how is it governed, according to its own documents and independent sources? provenance
- Who founded it and when? provenance
Theory How institutions work.
Analysis.
Formation
Formation and change.
Formation
Formation.
- How do institutions form, persist and change, according to institutional theory? provenance
- What is institutionalisation? definition
Economics
Institutions and outcomes.
Economics
Institutional economics.
- What does research say about how institutions affect economic and political outcomes? provenance
- Which debates are contested? boundary
Govern Governance and trust.
Accountability.
Accountability
Accountability.
Accountability
Accountability.
- How are institutions held accountable, and how is trust in them measured? provenance
- What are documented failures and reforms? provenance
Reform
Reform.
Reform
Reform.
- How can an institution be reformed, and which examples exist? provenance
- Which positions on reform are attributed? boundary
Learn Study.
Education.
Teach
Teaching about institutions.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can the concept of institutions be taught with examples? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Compare
Comparing institutions.
Compare
Comparison.
- How do similar institutions differ across countries? provenance
- Which indices compare institutional quality, and what are their limits? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should social institutions be a separate entry?
- How should institutional registers be linked?
- How should institutional theory be linked?