Abstract
1. Institutions Cannot Have Minds of their Own 2. Smallness of Scale Discounted 3. How Latent Groups Survive 4. Institutions are Founded on Analogy 5. Institutions Confer Identity 6. Institutions Remember and Forget 7. A Case of Institutional Forgetting 8. Institutions do the Classifying 9. Institutions Make Life and Death Decisions
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Political scienceSociology
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- 1988
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- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 383-383
- Citations
- 2738
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Bruno Latour,
Mary Douglas
(1988).
How Institutions Think..
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
, 17
(3)
, 383-383.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2069673
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- 10.2307/2069673