Classifying Mechanisms Past Times Location

If nosotros are going to take away maintain social mechanisms seriously, nosotros demand to hold upwards able to tell to a greater extent t...

If nosotros are going to take away maintain social mechanisms seriously, nosotros demand to hold upwards able to tell to a greater extent than nigh what they are. Earlier posts take away maintain opened the possibility of offering a scheme of classification for social mechanisms (link, link). Here I wish to briefly explore a dissimilar idea: to grouping mechanisms according to which share they play inside the infinite of social influence postulated past times the sentiment of methodological localism (link). I introduced the sentiment of methodological localism inwards "Levels of the Social" (link) every bit an ontological option to both methodological individualism in addition to methodological holism. That specification of the nature of social reality suggested a little handful of cardinal questions. Here I wish to experiment amongst classifying a number of mechanisms according to which of these questions they answer. Here is the relevant contestation from "Levels of the Social" (link):

According to methodological localism, the social is constituted past times socially situated individuals, nested inside social relations in addition to institutions that take away maintain entirely an intermediate marker of persistence in addition to permanence.

The socially situated private finds herself inside a concrete laid upwards of social relationships, networks, in addition to institutions. This complex serves to socialize in addition to render incentives, besides every bit to constrain. The approach of methodological localism supports besides the reality that institutions ofttimes take away maintain extra-local scope, geographically, demographically, in addition to administratively. So, nosotros tin legitimately pull institutions amongst broader reach every bit existence “higher-level” institutions. 

This approach suggests 6 large areas of focus for social scientific discipline research:

• What makes the private tick? [action mechanisms]
• How are individuals formed in addition to constituted? [social constitution mechanisms] 
• What are the institutional in addition to organizational factors that motivate in addition to constrain individuals' choices? [institutional mechanisms on private behavior]
• How practise private agents' actions aggregate to higher-level social patterns? [aggregative mechanisms]
• How practise macro-level social structures influence other macro-level social structures? [meso-meso mechanisms]

These questions imply 8 "zones" of activity for social mechanisms:

0 neuro-cognitive system
1 activity in addition to deliberation
2 identity formation
iii institutional influence on individuals
iv aggregation from private to social
v social activity in addition to collective action
6 hierarchy in addition to control
vii meso-meso influences

I take away maintain represented these 8 zones inwards the messy figure above.

This is a "functional" taxonomy of mechanisms; it classifies social mechanisms according to what they do. H5N1 dissimilar scheme would hold upwards to grouping mechanisms according to how they work: rational choice, game theoretic, social network, sub-cognitive, grouping dynamics, collective action, coercion, epidemiological, .... If nosotros adopted both schemes, in addition to hence nosotros would larn inwards at a two-dimensional classification including both functional place in addition to agency of activity.

So how does this scheme mesh amongst the mechanisms singled out inwards my before post? Here is a grouping of the mechanisms included inwards the catalogue presented in that place according to the electrical flow scheme:

0.00           NEURO-COGNITIVE SYSTEM

1.00           ACTION AND DELIBERATION

1.01              Altruistic enforcement

1.02              Conditional altruism [individuals argue on the footing of conditional willingness to deed inwards back upwards of collective good]

1.03              Reciprocity [individuals deed for other individuals inwards expectation of render favors inwards future; successful entirely inwards specific social conditions]

1.04              Social appropriation

1.05              Stereotype threat

2.00           IDENTITY FORMATION

2.01                Boundary activation

2.02                Certification

2.03                norm inculcation

3.00           INSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCE ON INDIVIDUALS

3.01              Audit in addition to accounting [organization establishes rules in addition to roles to oversee compliance amongst policies]

3.02              Broadcast

3.04              Contract

3.05              Employee grooming [organization establishes grooming for employees to encourage or create desired forms of behavior]

3.06              Framing [leaders communicate issues in addition to demands to followers inwards favorable ways]

3.09              Morale edifice

3.10              Norms [normative community influences private activity in addition to choice]

3.11              Selective benefits [organization or monastic tell offers benefits to those who contribute to articulation actions]

3.12              Selective coercion [group, leaders! or members impose sanctions on members to enforce compliance amongst grouping rules]

3.14              Supervision

3.15                Regulatory organizations

4.00           AGGREGATION OF INDIVIDUAL TO SOCIAL

4.02                Auction

4.03                Cyclical voting

4.04                Democratic determination making

4.05                Erosion

4.06                Flash trading

4.07                Imitation

4.08                Influence peddling

4.09                Interlocking mobilization

4.10                Interpersonal network

4.01                Market

4.13                Market for lemons

4.15                Producers' control

4.16                Rumor

4.17                Subliminal transmission

5.00           SOCIAL ACTION AND COLLECTIVE ACTION

5.01                Agenda setting

5.01                Brokerage [leaders negotiate coordinated activity amongst other groups/leaders]

5.02                Convention [individuals coordinate activity simply about conspicuous patterns or rules]

5.03                Coordinated action

5.04                Escalation [group in addition to leaders promote broader activity alliance or rear aeroplane of action]

5.05                Free passenger behavior

5.06                Prisoners' dilemma [result of strategic activity amid 2 or to a greater extent than players]
5.07                Log rolling
5.08                Person-to-person transmission

6.00           HIERARCHY AND CONTROL

6.01                Control of communications systems

6.02                Deception

6.03                Informers
6.03                Charisma

6.04                Propaganda

6.05                Secret police clit files

6.06                Spectacular occupation of force
6.07                Leadership
6.08                Ministry direction

7.00           MESO-MESO INFLUENCE

7.01                Competition for ability [groups in addition to leaders take away maintain steps to meliorate their ability position]

7.02                Diffusion [example of collective activity spreads to other locales in addition to groups in addition to issues]

7.03                Non-linear effects inside social networks

7.04                Overlapping systems of potency (Brenner)

7.05                Transport networks
7.06                Soft budget constraint

Interestingly enough, hither is a rather like diagram (in structure, anyway) that is provided past times Thornton, Ocacio, in addition to Lounsbury inwards their presentation of the plain of "institutional logics" (The Institutional Logics Perspective: H5N1 New Approach to Culture, Structure in addition to Process):

If nosotros empathise each of the arrows every bit a grouping of mechanisms, extending influence from 1 zone to the other, the diagram is rattling like inwards its logic to the 1 provided above.