To help you to understand the complexity of institutional development, this free course, Seeing institutions in different ways, will present institutions in three key ways: as rules and norms, as meanings and values and as big players. The rules govern social life and the norms establish how people should behave, while institutional development is about changing the rules. Meanings help people make sense of their lives and values indicate what is good or bad, while institutional development brings in new values. The big players are individuals and organisations with the power to shape social life, while institutional development struggles over what social life should be like.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Institutions as rules and norms
- 1 Institutions as rules and norms
- 1.1 Rules, norms and institutions
- 1.2 Institutions as sets of rules and norms
- 1.3 ‘Institutions’ and ‘organisations’
- 1.4 Institutions as rules and norms in your life and in development
- 1.5 Institutional development: changing the rules, the rules changing
- 1.6 A story of changing the rules
- 1.7 Looking at BancoSol through a different lens
- 2 Institutions as shared meanings and values
- 2 Institutions as shared meanings and values
- 2.1 Structure and action
- 3 Institutions as ‘big players’
- 3 Institutions as ‘big players’
- 3.1 Power
- 4 Extending ways of seeing institutions
- 4 Extending ways of seeing institutions
- 4.1 Questioning institutions and institutional development
- 4.2 Key concepts of institutional development
- Compliance and shared experience
- Individual agency and institutional contradiction
- Relationships and power
- 4.3 Levels of action
- 4.4 Identifying a conceptual framework
- 4.5 Analysing an institutional landscape
- 4.6 Interrogating a conceptual framework
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
