Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution

by Jonathan H. Turner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742525589
• ISBN13: 9780742525580
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"