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How to model an institution John W. Mohr & Harrison C. White Published online: 10 June 2008 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Inst itutions are linkage mechanisms that bri dge acr oss thre e kinds of  soci al divides they li nk mi cro systems of soci al interact ion to meso (and macro) levels of organization, they connect the symbolic with the material, and the agentic wit h the str uctural. Two key ana lyti c princ iples are identified for  empirical rese arch, relationalit y and dualit y . These are linked to new research strategies for the study of institutions that draw on network analytic techniques. Two hypotheses are suggested. (1) Institutional resilience is directly correlated to the ove rall degre e of structural linkages that bridg e across domains of level, meaning, and agency. (2) Institutional change is related to over-bridging, defined as the sustained juxtaposition of multiple styles within the same institutional site. Case exampl es are used to test these cont enti ons. Inst it ut ional st abil it y is examined in the case of Indian caste systems and American academic science. Insti tut ional change is explore d in the case of the rise of the early Chr istian church and in the origins of rock and roll music. One of the most striking developments in recent research on institutions has been the appearance of a spate of new work by scholars who are using relational model ing techniques originally devel ope d for the study of social networks to disentangle the complex logic of institutional processes. Of course, one can argue Theor Soc (2008) 37:485 512 DOI 10.1007/s1 1186-008-9066- 0 J. W. Mohr (*) Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA e-mail: [email protected] H. C. White Sociology Department, 413 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA e-mail: [email protected]

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