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The Ceremonial‐Instrumental Dichotomy in Institutional Analysis: The Nature, Scope and Radical Implications of the Conflicting Systems

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. An intellectual crisis in institutionalist thought centers around the way the ceremonial‐instrumental dichotomy is perceived and used as a tool of socioeconomic analysis, and more pointedly the way the meaning and role of technological functioning in a ceremonial, power‐controlled context is assessed. Genuine technological‐instrumental forces serve to identify, examine and subject to critical scrutiny outmoded systems and perspectives. They set the tone for conceptualization, reconstruction and destruction of ceremonial institutional forms. The ceremonial power system is concerned with controlling the use, direction and consequences of that reconstruction while serving as the vehicle for defining the limits of technological development by dominating the legal, property and information systems. At home as abroad, the colonizer develops a system for exploiting the colonized and for legitimizing and rationalizing his hegemony.

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  • Louis Junker, 1982. "The Ceremonial‐Instrumental Dichotomy in Institutional Analysis: The Nature, Scope and Radical Implications of the Conflicting Systems," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(2), pages 141-141, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:41:y:1982:i:2:p:141-141
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1982.tb03164.x
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