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| Institutionalization: Institutionalization is the process of embedding a concept, belief, norm, social role, particular value, or mode of behavior within an organization, social system, or society as a whole. See also Institutions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Talcott Parsons on Institutionalisation - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 404 Institutionalisation/Money/Power/Parsons/Habermas: how are the media money and power anchored in the normative world? Money is institutionalized through institutions of private civil law such as property and contract, power through the public-law organization of offices. >Communication media, >Money, >Power, >Property, >Contracts, >Contract theory. The right to have money implies access to markets where transactions are possible; the right to exercise power usually implies holding a position within an organization where power relations are hierarchical: Unlike money, power can only be provided through organisations in the long term and used for the goals of a collective. In contrast to property rights, the authority to issue directives requires an organisation that channels the flow of binding decisions via places and programmes.(1) In contrast to power, which can only be exercised in a socially relevant way as an organized power, money already existed under primitive conditions as a circulating medium. Habermas IV 405 Asymmetry/Legitimation/Power/Money/Parsons/Habermas: Parsons ignores the asymmetry, which is that trust in the power system must be secured at a higher level than trust in the monetary system. The institutions of private civil law should ensure the functioning of money transactions conducted via markets in the same way as the office organisation should ensure the exercise of power. However, this also requires an advance of trust, which means not only "compliance" (actual compliance with the law) but "obligation" (obligation based on recognition of normative claims to validity). This asymmetry has always been linked to socialist concerns about the organisational power of capital owners, which is only secured under private law. Habermas IV 425 The institutional framework in which a rationalization of society can begin only emerges in the wake of the Reformation and the Renaissance. >Institutions, >Reformation, >Renaissance. 1. T. Parsons, Social Theory and Modern Society, NY 1967, S. 318._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
ParCh I Ch. Parsons Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays Cambridge 2014 ParTa I T. Parsons The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1 1967 ParTe I Ter. Parsons Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics 2000 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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