Agents, Actors, Actorhood
Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
Gili S Drori editor Hokyu Hwang editor Jeannette A Colyvas editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:5th Apr '19
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National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic action committees and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons. Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role of such empowered social actors?
This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.
Researchers from Europe, the US, Israel, and Australia present 13 essays that examine the emergence, construction, and transformation of actors and their agency, action, and authority in institutions in various contexts. The first section considers the meanings, construction, and emergence of actors in institutions, including different types of actors, school principals, the concept of actorial identity through the construction of legal persons as actors, nonprofits as organizational actors, the role of active clients in universities, and the institutional construction of organizations as actors. The second section discusses the work of actors in episodes of institutional change and stability, with discussion of the emergence of evidence-based medicine in American health care, the emergence of the profession of scientific winemaking in the Australian wine industry, the incorporation of Islamic banking and organic agriculture within the legal system in Turkey, changes in sherpa actorhood in mountaineering, and the struggle for legitimacy of the LGBT community in Israel. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
ISBN: 9781787560819
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 535g
304 pages