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Human Institutions : A Theory of Societal Evolution, Paperback / softback Book

Human Institutions : A Theory of Societal Evolution Paperback / softback

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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.

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