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Sociology and the Normative Institutional Theory Reflections on Helmut Schelsky’s Institutional Theory from the Point of View of the Normative Institutional Ontology

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Law, Institution and Legal Politics

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I should like to make some observations about the theory of the institutions, about theoretical sociology and the system-theoretical approach to social and legal problems from the point of view of my theory of action and my ontology of norms.1

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  1. For my conception of the theory of actions see: O. Weinberger, Studien zur formal-finalistischen Handlungstheorie, Frankfurt a.M./Bern/New York 1983, also Chapter VI of this volume; for the ontology of norms and the legal-theoretical conception resulting from it compare: O. Weinberger, Ontología de las normas en la perspectiva de la theoría de la acción, in: Akten des ersten Internationalen Kongresses für Rechtsphilosophie in La Plata, vol. 2, La Plata 1982, pp. 544–566; the same, Eine Semantik für die praktische Philosophie, in: R. Haller (ed.), Beiträge zur Philosophie von Stephan Körner, Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 20, 1983, pp. 219–239; D.N. MacCormick/O. Weinberger, Grundlagen des Institutionaliustischen Rechtspositivismus, Berlin 1985; English version: An Institutional Theory of Law. New Approaches to Legal Positivism, Dordrecht 1986

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Weinberger, O. (1991). Sociology and the Normative Institutional Theory Reflections on Helmut Schelsky’s Institutional Theory from the Point of View of the Normative Institutional Ontology. In: Law, Institution and Legal Politics. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3458-3_8

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