How actors move from primary agency to institutional agency: A conceptual framework and empirical application
提出一个概念框架,分析行动者如何从默认制度的初级能动性转向有意识运用制度的制度能动性,并以西班牙15M社会运动为例,说明组织过程(如经验丰富的组织者、新组织成立和预演性组织)对提升制度能动性的关键作用。
This article contributes to the understanding of actors and agency in the theorization of institutional work. We analyse institutional work as a specific kind of social action that involves exercising institutional agency (with an articulate awareness of institutions) as opposed to primary agency (taking institutions for granted). We propose a conceptual framework for combining a view of actors, who have agency and may engage in institutional work, with a view of actors as socially constructed, in line with critical-realist ontology. Applying this framework to the empirical case of the Spanish social movement 15M, we examine how actors moved from having primary agency to having institutional agency and how organization mattered for this process. We find that organizing by experienced organizers, the founding of new organizations and prefigurative organization were of crucial importance for the increase in institutional agency.