From Corrupt to Knowledge Societies: How To Change Mentality?
Abstract: In search of an answer to the questions of what a knowledge society is and how it emerges we draw connections between the macro-institutional theory of the American political economist Douglass C. North and the theory of micro-social mechanisms of the Swedish sociologist Peter Hedström. North considers the institutional framework of a society as determining, in principle, the structure of economic opportunities and incentives for social actors. Actors acquire those types of knowledge and skills that they perceive most “valuable” or “profitable” and, at the same time, using the acquired types of knowledge and skills, they perceive possibilities for new opportunities and incentives, i.e. for changing the institutional framework. In addition to being influenced by the structure of economic incentives, the actors’ perception of value/“profitability” is also impacted by “mental constructs”, which actors use in order to interpret the world around them. In Hedström’s view, on the other ha
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities ; 1 (2012) 1 ; 26-37
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Wirtschaft
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Mannheim
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2012
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Srbljinović, Armano
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-341651
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Srbljinović, Armano
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- 2012
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