Original scientific paper

ON RATIONALlTY, SOCIAL NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS: EVOLUTION OF SOCI O- -CULTURAL CAPITAL AS A MODEL OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

Aleksandar Štulhofer ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper suggests that a joint sociological and economic approach
to institutional dynamics, one of the core phenomena in both
disciplines, yields important results. In the first part the author delineates
informal and formal institutions and then concentrates on the
bridging role of socio-cultural capital (SCC). In the second part of
the paper several hypotheses are proposed linking the structure of
SCC - especially the scope of cooperation and the verticali horizontal
organization as its basic dimensions - with the institutional dynamics
and persistence. The analysis of the macro structure of institutional
dynamics points out thatthe institutional path- dependency
should be interpreted in terms of the differentiai socio-cultural configuration.
Discussing the cases of Suq (bazaar), Mafia, and medieval
guilds, the author offers a simple evolutionary model of institutional
change.

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Hrčak ID:

32289

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32289

Publication date:

1.11.1995.

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