The Bound Prometheus.
Institutional Analyses of Polish Modernization
1 1 | University of Warsaw |
Publication date: 2010-06-23
Polish Sociological Review 2010;170(2):191–218
KEYWORDS
structureagencyinstitutions and institutionalizationrational choicestructural heritage (dependency pathway)sociologicalpolitical-legal (transactionism)international regime
ABSTRACT
The author argues that it is worth applying the theoretical-methodological schemas of institutionalism
to the analysis of modernization.He views institutions as bridges or in fact “engines” which are planes
of inclusion of agencies (individuals, businesses, states etc.) in the structural processes of modernization,
globalization, liberalization, democratization etc. He demonstrates how mechanisms differ depending on
the type of institutionalism: rationalistic choice, dependence on structural heritage, sociological (functionalistic),
political-legal, international. He makes references to Polish reality, past and present, in his
analyses.
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