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“That the proliferation of a multiplicity of competing publics is a step away from greater democracy. “It follows that public life in egalitarian, multicultural societies cannot consist exclusively in a single, comprehensive public sphere. That would be tantamount to filtering diverse rhetorical and stylistic norms through a single, overarching len

Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.

Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.

Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty

Nudge

Cass R. Sunstein

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Organizational structures are created and made more elaborate with the rise of institutionalized myths, and, in highly institutionalized contexts, organizational action must support these myths. But an organization must also attend to practical activity. The two requirements are at odds. A stable solution is to maintain the organization in a loosel... See more

American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR

The rise of professionalized economics makes it useful for organizations to incorporate groups of economists and econometric analyses. Though no one may read, understand or believe them, econometric analyses help legitimate the organization's plans in the eyes of investors, customers (as with Defense Department contractors), and internal participan... See more

American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR

La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.

Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)

Proposition 3. Organizations that incorporate societally legitimated rationalized elements in their formal structures maximize their legitimacy and increase their resources and survival capabilities

American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR

Core argument: This paper argues that the formal structures of many organizations in postindustrial society (Bell 1973) dramatically reflect the myths of their institutional environments instead of the demands of their work activities. Societal / institutional complexity has added to the core activities needed to perform a productive act of labour.... See more