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social science subjects > social research > philosophy and the social sciences > philosophy and politics > institutionalism and institutional theory
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social science subjects > social research > philosophy and the social sciences > philosophy of social science > institutionalism and institutional theory

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institutionalism and institutional theory  

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  • This entry gives an extended overview of an area that, in its recent rich revival, has brought back the study of institutional structures and organizations to the center of social sciences and, in particular, of political science. Institutionalism poses significant questions of epistemological and, more generally, philosophical import for the study of the social world, not least of which is the core antithesis between holism and individualism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Institutionalism and Institutional Theory]

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