This article views the bureaucratic form of organization as both an agent and an expression of key modern social innovations that are most clearly manifested in the non-inclusive terms by which individuals are involved in organizations. Modern human involvement in organizations epitomizes and institutionally embeds the crucial yet often overlooked cultural orientation of modernity whereby human...

Научный журнал «Ученые записки Петрозаводского государственного университета» публикует результаты научных исследований в области естественных, технических, общественных и гуманитарных наук. Выходит 3-х сериях.

We study higher-order risk preferences, i.e. prudence and temperance, next to risk aversion in social settings. Previous experimental studies have shown that higherorder risk preferences aff ect the choices of individuals deciding privately on lotteries that only aff ect their own pay-off . Yet, most risky and fi nancially relevant decisions in the fi eld are made in the social settings of hous...

The word “coordination” has two meanings, and these meanings are often conflated. One meaning, associated with Thomas Schelling, is seen in situations like choosing whether to drive on the left or the right; the drivers must coordinate to each other’s behavior. The other meaning, associated with Friedrich Hayek, means that a concatenation of activities is arranged so as to produce good results....

In his famous 1982 address as a president of the American Sociological Association, Erving Goffman returns to the relation between the interaction order and social structures, which he defines as a „loose coupling‟. This paper elaborates on this intriguing but partially disappointing response, and proposes to complement it by analyzing the role of institutions. First, individual interactions, s...