Abstract
Societal dissatisfaction with structuralist approaches have become the reason for yet another crisis of modern sociology. Traditional sociology ignored the person who is able to make individual decisions and make informed choices, and in traditional economic theory, this person " hung in an airless space” in the absence of supporting social structures. Sociologists have become interested in what is happening in neoinstitutional economic theory, and, moreover, intensively borrow its conceptual apparatus. Attempts to resolve the crisis are demonstrated today by theorists of the activist-activity direction (for example, M. Archer, E. Giddens, P. Shtompka, etc.), and in the field of Economics – neoinstitutionalists. The article represents the activist-activity paradigm that we share (in Russia, its supporters are S. A. Kravchenko, V. A. Yadov, and others), the main principle which goes back to the formula of Karl Marx that people are born under the same conditions, their practical activities change them, changing themselves.
Keywords
activist-activity paradigm, institutional changes, habitus, interaction practices
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