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Type | Journal Article - Sociological Forum |
Title | World culture, uncoupling, institutional logics, and recoupling: Practices and self-identification as institutional microfoundations of political violence |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 3 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2015 |
Page numbers | 698-720 |
URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.12188/full |
Abstract | This study proposes a micro-institutional theory of political violence, according to which citizens' participation in political violence is partially an outcome of tight coupling of persons' practices and self-identifications with institutional logics opposed to dominant logics associated with world culture, such as the nation-state and gender equality. The study focuses on two types of institutional carriers through which persons adopt institutional logics: routine practices and self-identifications associated with three institutional logics: the familial, the ethnic, and the religious logics. Using a 15-country survey data from early twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa, the study finds evidence in support of the theory. Reported participation in political violence is associated with practices and self-identifications uncoupled from dominant world-culture logics but tightly coupled with the patriarchal familial logic, with an oppositional ethnic logic, and with a politicized oppositional religious logic. |
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Velitchkova, Ana. "World culture, uncoupling, institutional logics, and recoupling: Practices and self-identification as institutional microfoundations of political violence." Sociological Forum 30, no. 3 (2015): 698-720.