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The discussion over what institutions are has a long tradition in sociology, and the concept itself can be considered as crucial to the analysis of social processes and phenomena. Theoretical reflection on the sociology of social institutions, the role of the social actor in its production and reproduction, and methods of their study, is part of a sociological discourse about the nature of social reality, including the relationships between the individual and society, microand macrostructures, and epistemological subjectivism and objectivism. Following the classic sociological theoretical discourse about social institutions it is possible to distinguish between two main directions of analysis which, in different ways, explain the relationship between an individual and an institutional structure: first, functionalism, which emphasizes the primacy of a system over human action, and second, the theory of social action, implying methodological individualism and investigating social change in terms of the results of the activities of individuals. The understanding of institutions in the new institutionalism, which is a theoretical perspective covered by the reviewed book, can be considered as a kind of attempt to reconcile these two classic trends – the theories of systems, focusing on the determining function of institutions, and the interpretive theories, “releasing” a subject and granting the performative

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New institutionalism at the heuristic frames - historical roots, social theories, research methods [recenzja książki]: Chmielewski, Piotr. 2011. Homo agens : instytucjonalizm w naukach społecznych. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Poltext