On thinking institutionally / Hugh Heclo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heclo, Hugh.

Series:

On politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social institutions.

Values.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of??critical??? thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking??about??? institutions to the more personal significance???and larger social meaning???of what it is to??think institutionally.??? His account ranges from Michael Jordan's??respect for the game??? of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of??office??? and??professionalism.??? Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally.

Contents:

Introduction: Respect for the game

Our modern impasse

From thinking about institutions to thinking institutionally

Being institutionally minded

Applications, dangers, and the uphill journey

Ways of thinking, ways of being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.

ISBN:

9781594512957

1594512957

OCLC:

187417683