molecularist

However, there is a third possibility, namely, (what might be termed) molecularist accounts.

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Roughly speaking, a molecularist account of an institution would not seek to reduce the institution to simpler atomic forms, such as conventions; nor would it seek to define an institution in terms of its relationships with other institutions and its contribution to the larger societal whole.

Social Institutions Miller, Seumas 2007

A general problem for holistic organicist accounts of social institutions ” as opposed to molecularist accounts ” is that social institutions can be responses to trans-societal requirements or needs.

Social Institutions Miller, Seumas 2007