Transformation Of Action Pattern In The Institutional Change

Undergoing social transition and market transition, China has met a focal problem that is how to keep steady and orderly, and according to what rules or institution people act. Unlike the radical reform in Russia and eastern Europe, China adopt the way of gradual reform which leads to the durative of economic development and the stability of social order, therefore, contemporary social science meets a completely new challenge to understand the rule and the effect of the institution on the human society development.In the past, sociology often use the paradigm of"social structure determinism"to investigate the relationship between institution and action, but often neglect action's dynamic counteractive on institution, including effects on the institution's generation, development and change. Although some sociologists use the paradigm of"rational choice"to investigate the relationship between institution and action, they neglect the practical restriction of institution and the relevancy of social context, so they fail to escape from the barrier of"social structure determinism". It is not difficult to see that these two research paradigms are all lack of the studies on the combination of macrostructure and microstructure, and the interaction of institution and action.Economics takes the hypothesis of human behavior as the premise, and investigates the relationship between institution and action from the micro view, but also does not break the restriction of"rational choice". Some economists use the theory of transaction costs in the new institutional economics as the core of institutional study, and explain institutional change as the guided change and the enforced change to depict some mechanisms of the relationship between institution...