DISS (2ND SEM) - INSTITUTIONALISM

• Institutionalism


  studies formal and informal institutions and their effects on society
• Institutions


  • They have a set of established laws, customs, and practices that manifest their existence in society
  • They study how power, relations, influence, coercion, or even physical structures
• Society


  • various institutions
  • Our behavior is an essential socio-cultural building block of society as they influence human behavior and create and maintain order in human interactions and communities
• Institutionalist -phenomenon within a certain context
• Institutions


  Patterns, routines, norms, rules, and schemes that govern and direct social thought and action
• Institutionalism


  to analyze how actions and thoughts penetrate into an individual's social consciousness into the social psyche
• Institutionalism


  effects of institutions' policies and to know how it affects the societal functions
• Philosophical influences


  • Can be traced from the ancient Greeks, specifically from Plato and Aristotle's Institutionalism discussion
• David Mitrany (1888-1975)


  • A Romanian-born British Scholar, historian, and political theorist
  • His role in studying structural functionalism in international relations made him earn the title one of the founding fathers of liberal institutionalism
• Jean Monnet (1888-1979)


  • A French political economist and diplomat
  • As one of the European Union originators, he saw how the needs of the state are to be achieved through the principle of supranationality
  • He argued against territory being the source of authority, Monnet used the argument to erase country borderlines
• Normative institutionalism emphasizes the role of international institutions in shaping state behavior through shared norms and values.
• Institutionalism is the belief that institutions are important to understand human behavior.