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- This article is about institutions as social mechanisms. Please see Organization for formal establishments.
Institutions are social structures and social mechanisms of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of two or more individuals. Institutions are identified with a social purpose and permanence, transcending individual human lives and intentions, and with the making and enforcing of rules governing cooperative human behavior. The term, institution, is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as well as to particular formal organizations of government and public service. As structures and mechanisms of social order among humans, institutions are one of the principal objects of study in the social sciences, including sociology, political science and economics. Institutions are a central concern for law, the formal regime for political rule-making and enforcement. The creation and evolution of institutions is a primary topic for history.
Aspects of Institutions
Although individual, formal organizations, commonly identified as "institutions," may be deliberately and intentionally created by people, the development and functioning of institutions in society in general may be regarded as an instance of emergence; that is, institutions arise, develop and function in a pattern of social self-organization, which goes beyond the conscious intentions of the individual humans involved.
As mechanisms of social cooperation, institutions are manifest in both objectively real, formal organizations, such as the U.S. Congress, the Roman Catholic Church or the Bank of England, and, also, in informal social order and organization, reflecting human psychology, culture, habits and customs. Most important institutions, considered abstractly, have both objective and subjective aspects: examples include money and marriage. The institution of money encompasses many formal organizations, including banks and government treasury departments and stock exchanges, which may be termed, "institutions," as well as subjective experiences, which guide people in their pursuit of personal economic well-being and wealth. Powerful institutions are able to imbue a paper currency with certain value, and to induce millions into cooperative production and trade in pursuit of economic ends abstractly denominated in that currency's units. The subjective experience of money is so pervasive and persuasive that economists talk of the "money illusion" and try to disabuse their students of it, in preparation for learning economic analysis.
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I have been thinking that our govt. should support arts institutions. David Byrne disagrees in an intriguing way: http://tinyurl.com/ydeb2gp
Michael_Designs (Michael Barnett) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:36:30 -0000
I have been thinking that our govt. should support arts institutions. David Byrne disagrees in an intriguing way: http://tinyurl.com/ydeb2gp
Comment / Israel must stop boycotting institutions of international law http://ff.im/-dRlUF
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Comment / Israel must stop boycotting institutions of international law http://ff.im/-dRlUF
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions & the passage of time - Richard Dawkins
UNOSSA (Secular Students) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:22:27 -0000
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions & the passage of time - Richard Dawkins
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -Charles Robert Darwin #quote
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -Charles Robert Darwin #quote
Producing Globalisation: Politics of Discourse and Institutions in Greece and Ireland - by Andreas Antoniades. http://j.mp/7sBTpX
new_textbook (New Textbooks) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:15:29 -0000
Producing Globalisation: Politics of Discourse and Institutions in Greece and Ireland - by Andreas Antoniades. http://j.mp/7sBTpX
(Australia) University of Adelaide - Mathematical Physics in the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics. Research areas: quantum field theory, string theory, statistical mechanics, theoretical condensed matter. physics, general relativity, quantum gravity and cosmology
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(Austria) Erwin Schroedinger Institute for Mathematical Physics - ESI was founded with the aim of providing a meeting place for leading experts in Mathematical Physics and Mathematics in the international scientific community.
(Belgium) Ghent University - Department of Mathematical Physics and Astronomy. Research interests and news.
(Germany) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden - Program, visitors, eprint archive, research projects, web resources.
(Germany) Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Mathematical Physics Workgroup (Arbeitsgruppe Mathematische Physik). Members, lectures and seminars, research projects and collaborators.
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(Ireland) NUI Galway - Department of Mathematical Physics. Staff, research, courses, competitions.
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(Ireland) NUI Maynooth - Department of Mathematical Physics. Information about the staff, courses and research. Also features campus maps.
(Ireland) University College, Dublin - Department of Mathematical Physics. Information on staff, research, courses, seminars, prizes and history.
(Poland) Warsaw University - Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics (Katedra Metod Matematycznych Fizyki, KMMF). Research staff, preprints, seminars.
(Portugal) University of Lisbon - Mathematical Physics Group (GFM). Members, research topics, preprints, meetings, jobs.
(Russia) Diffiety Institute - Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Pereslavl-Zalessky. Research in algebra and geometry of differential equations and cohomological physics.
(Russia) ITEP Mathematical Physics Group, Moscow - Research interests in Quantum Field Theory. People, events, preprints.
(Russia) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Department of Air Dynamics and Cosmic Research; Physics of Nonequilibrium Systems Laboratory. The laboratory deals with the different types of nonequilibrium processes and systems.
(Sweden) KTH - Mathematical Physics Group of the Department of Physics. Faculty, projects, publications, courses.
(Sweden) Lund Institute of Technology - Department of Mathematical Physics. Research interests: Theoretical nuclear physics, Elementary particles, Thermodynamics, Complex systems, Chaos.
(UK) Edinburgh - Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group, a group of mathematicians and physicists from across the Edinburgh Universities. People, research, seminars, jobs and resources.
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(UK) North British Mathematical Physics Seminar - Four seminars are held in rotation every year.
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(UK) University of Cambridge - Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Details of research, undergraduate and postgraduate study, and computing in the department.
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(UK) University of Oxford - Mathematical Physics Group. Includes a list of staff and publications, as well as details of colloquia.
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(UK) University of Portsmouth - Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation. People, projects, newsletter, publications, resources.
(UK) University of York - Mathematical Physics Group. People, research, events, publications, resources.
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(USA) Duke University - Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems. People, research, seminar, resources.
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(USA) Institute for Nonlinear Science - University of California, San Diego. People, research, seminars, meetings, FTP archive and web resources.
(USA) Naval Research Laboratory - Nonlinear Physics group. Members, publications.
(USA) University of Texas - Center for Nonlinear Dynamics. People, publications, research, courses.
International Association of Mathematical Physics - The International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) was founded in order to promote research in mathematical physics. The Association invites mathematicians and physicists (including students) interested in this goal to become members.
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International Clifford Algebra Society - Abstracts, journals, meetings, reviews.
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