"System theories have been applied to a wide spectrum of empirical cases and policy issues. Parsons and his followers,…"

"In sum, social actors knowledgeably and actively use, interpret and implement rule systems. They also creatively refo…"

"The rule systems governing transactions among agents in a defined sphere specify, to a greater or lesser extent, who …"

"Markets are social organizations, structured and regulated by more or less well-defined social rule systems."

"There are two basic ways market organization is brought about... Some combination of the two is usual the case:"

"# Strategic structuring, informal or formal, whereby social agents, including the state, establish a rule regime regu…"

"# Emergent structuring, whereby participants discover or adopt certain similar strategies within bounded rationality …"

"In the most abstract sense, a system is a set of objects together with relationships among the objects. Such a defini…"

"Within sociology there have been several system theories, differing from one another in the extent to which, for exam…"

"Functionalist systems theories. The theorists in this tradition explain the emergence and/or maintenance of parts, st…"