ID - 131904625 TI - The Emergence of Institutions : An Aesthetic-Affective Perspective PY - 2022 SN - 9783030898953 9783030898946 9783030898960 9783030898977 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Aesthetics KW - Sociology KW - Economics KW - sociologie KW - economie KW - esthetica KW - kennisleer KW - Organizational sociology. KW - Occupations KW - Aesthetics. KW - Hermeneutics. KW - Sociology of Organizations and Occupations. KW - Sociological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131904625 AB - This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting and self-propelling powers. Instead of seeing institutional emergence, change and decline as the result of actors’ interests and manipulations, this book re-establishes the importance of factors beyond human design and intervention. Drawing on process theory, it shows how ideas, norms and values can form self-stabilising configurations that affect people without conscious realisation. It complements current thinking about institutions by showing how institutions constitute people long before people constitute them. With the help of authors as diverse as Antonio Damasio, A.N. Whitehead, J.W. von Goethe and Max Weber, Elke Weik crafts a perspective that allows us to understand institutions as aesthetic and affective powers in their own right. This book is for researchers interested in process theory, institutional and organisational studies, hermeneutics, and aesthetics. ER -