Institutions, Ideology, and Nonideal Social Ontology
2019 (English)In: Philosophy of the social sciences, ISSN 0048-3931, E-ISSN 1552-7441, Vol. 49, no 2, p. 137-159Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Analytic social ontology has been dominated by approaches where institutions tend to come out paradigmatically as being relatively harmonious and mutually beneficial. This can however raise worries about such models potentially playing an ideological role in conceptualizing certain politically charged features of our societies as marginal phenomena or not even being institutional matters at all. This article seeks to develop a nonideal theory of institutions, which neither assumes that institutions are beneficial or oppressive, and where ideology is understood as a structuring and stabilizing phenomenon that helps maintain specific distributions of rights and duties by conferring perceived legitimacy onto them.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019. Vol. 49, no 2, p. 137-159
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-1872DOI: 10.1177/0048393118823265ISI: 000458784800003Local ID: 27900OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-1872DiVA, id: diva2:1398604
2020-02-272020-02-272022-03-10Bibliographically approved