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performative theory of institutions  

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  • This entry presents Barry Barnes's theory of social institutions, known as the self-referential model or sometimes as the performative model, and explains how it differs in important ways from similar accounts of self-reflexivity involved in constructing the social world. In everyday language, the word institution refers to things such as hospitals, prisons, banks, and universities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Performative Theory of Institutions]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MSBRFFH4-M

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