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2003, Realism in Action
This papers offers criticisms of John Searle's account of social institutions and proffers a teleological account.
Synthese (forthcoming)
The Functions of Institutions: Etiology and TeleologyInstitutions generate cooperative benefits that explain why they exist and persist. Therefore, their etiological function is to promote cooperation. The function of a particular institution, such as money or traffic regulations, is to solve one or more cooperation problems. We go on to argue that the teleological function of institutions is to secure values by means of norms. Values can also be used to redesign an institution and to promote social change. We argue, however, that an adequate theory of institutions should not be 'moralized' in that they should not be defined in terms of the values they are supposed to promote.
What is the nature of the social reality? How do the major social institutions like money or law exist? What are the limits of individualistically-oriented social theories?These and related problems are intensely discussed in philosophy, in legal theory and in the methodology of social sciences. This collection brings together the different traditions of the contemporary discussion. It includes thought-provoking articles by John Searle, Margaret Gilbert, Ota Weinberger, Raimo Tuomela, Eerik Lagerspetz, Michael Quante, Cristina Redondo and Paolo Comanducci.”Wonderful selection of articles that contribute in important ways to the growing field of social ontology... A ’must-have’ for anyone working on issues of social ontology.” Deborah Tollefsen, University of Memphis http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Social-Institutional-Reality/dp/951390704X
John Searle, in several articles and books, has contended that institutions incorporating status functions with deontic powers are created by collective acceptance that is not analysable into individual acceptance. I point out three self-contradictions in Searle’s exposition.
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2018 •
En economía, la noción de institución no está claramente definida, al menos no de manera formal. En este documento, se toman algunos elementos de los fundamentos de Searle para el estudio formal de los fenómenos sociales con el objetivo de proponer una caracterización más completa y formal del concepto. Además, a los efectos de una comprensión intuitiva de la propuesta, se ha ensayado una aplicación del concepto de institución en el caso de la aproximación Williamson (1975) a la New Institutional Economics.In Economics the notion of institution is not sufficiently defined, at least not in a formal way. In this paper, some elements of Searle’s foundation for the formal study of social phenomena are taken to propose a more comprehensive and formal characterization of the concept. Also, for the purposes of an intuitive understanding of the proposal’s attributes, it is tried out an application to the concept of institution in the case of New Institutional Economics, at least Williamson’...
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It is the success and failures in human organizations that account for the progress and retrogression of societies Douglass North People must learn to play games in an imperfect world Binmore and Samuelson Abstract: Th is paper discusses the eff ect of social structure in the development of cooperative behaviour. We will argue that structural conditions shape the scope of social interactions. Strategic exchanges among the members of society are built in the context of the parameters that are defi ned by the institutional framework in which social life develops. Cooperation is not the result of natural development, nor does it depend on altruistic behaviour ; instead, it results both from the confi guration of normative mechanisms of control and incentives systems, and from the evolution of moral foundations resulting from learning processes. We will use the Stag Hunt Metaphor to argue about the impact that context may have in determining the scope of human interactions and about the importance of de-fi ning moral mechanisms that favour the construction of a stable social order.
Institutions: a promising topic insufficiently clarified
Institutions: a promising topic insufficiently clarified2022 •
The basic question of sociology is what sets of rules and order are used in society and how they are maintained. One possible answer is based on the concept of institutions, which still provokes theoretical discussions due to, among other things, a certain ambiguity, since the term 'institution' is, figuratively speaking, shrouded in a kind of fog that prevents it from being captured in any direct, clear way. Today, ambitions of philosophy, political science, anthropology or mathematical game theory, which try to solve this problem outside the sociological framework, contribute to the deepening of the ambiguities surrounding the concept of institutions. Some approaches tend to define institutions as a cyber black box with inputs and outputs, whose working remains largely hidden (especially philosophical and mathematical approaches strive to find some common universal principle or even mathematical formula). From the perspective of general sociological theory, the article considers the topic of institutions. The author identifies this topic as a central issue that needs to be reconsidered in sociology. The starting point of the article is the analysis of concepts related to the topic, their definitions and paradigmatic integration. In the following part, the author considers the theoretical interpretations in the works of Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann, John Searle, and the concepts inspired by game theories and rational behaviour theories. After that, ten basic issues of the current approaches are identified. The author pays particular attention to the fact that methodological individualism tends to dominate, which explains the ignorance of certain issues, especially of a holistic and macro-social nature, thus, leading to some problematic simplifications. The article shows what needs to be changed in the current social-scientific thinking on institutions in order to develop a more appropriate starting point for the further development of sociological theory.
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